SIA bestowed six Design Awards and 15 Honourable Mentions across six new categories in this year’s SIA Architectural Design Awards at the Resort World Sentosa.
August 1st, 2019
Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA) bestowed a total of 22 accolades at its award programme SIA Architectural Design Awards in July during its annual dinner held at the Resort World Sentosa.
After skipping 2018, the 2019 edition of the award programme resumed with six new categories that were introduced to streamline building classification, as well as to encourage innovation of material use, construction detailing and building sustainability.
The six new categories are Low-Density Housing, High-Density Housing, Urban Interventions, Innovation: Material and Construction Detailing, Detail for Sustainability, and Exhibition Design.
The award entries were judged based on their originality and innovation, sensitivity to context, sustainability, response to climate, response to users’ need, and elegance of construction and detail.
Winner of the Residential – Low-Density Housing category, House Above 44 Kasai Road by ipLi Architects took home the award’s highest accolade, the Building of The Year Award.
The house is lifted above its undulating landscape, like the olden day’s stilted kampong houses. This strategy has created a delightful spatial experience as one ascends to the house from the entrance.
“Internally the spaces are well-crafted and well-ventilated with light-well that facilities the discharge of hot air accumulated within the house,” praised the jurors, who unanimously agreed that the building is “a very fine and unpretentious building with spartan materials used to achieve many ‘ends’ and is a masterly handling of tropicality.”
Here is the complete list of winners:
House Above 44 Kasai Road, ipli Architects
House with a Sanctum, RT+Q Architects
Aperture House, Formwerkz Architects
Cloister House, Formwerkz Architects
Grotto House, Formwerkz Architects
M5 @ Jalan Mutiara, ipli Architects
Shorefront, Penang, RT+Q Architects in collaboration with SM Ooi Architect
Kampung Admiralty, WOHA Architects
Marina One, Architects 61 in collaboration with Ingenhoven Architects
Amanyangyun, Kerry Hill Architects
Sparkletots Preschool By PAP Community Foundation, LAUD Architects
Khong Guan Building, META Architecture in collaboration with Lua Architects Associates
The Void Deck Pavilion, Kite Studio Architecture
Singapore Management University – Prinsep Street Residences, MKPL Architects
Jurong Town Hall, Forum Architects in collaboration with WSP Consultancy
Camo House, WOW Architects
Singapore Botanic Gardens Visitor Kiosk & Boardwalk, Genome Architects
More than just a library, IX Architects
Amanyangyun, Kerry Hill Architects
Gradient Space, METRE Architects
Century of Light, FARM Architects
Congratulations to all winners!
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