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Singapore and the SIA, a powerhouse of design
Shortlisted in the 2026 INDE.Awards are a plethora of projects from Singapore and the Singapore Institute of Architects’ members. We celebrate the talent that resides in this country, as we showcase design that crosses borders and resonates in our Indo-Pacific region.
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INDE.Awards Gala marks ten years with truly regional scope
At a packed awards night in Melbourne, the design community from all corners of the Asia-Pacific region came together to celebrate an incredible range of winners.
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Celebrating regional voices at the 2026 INDE.Awards
Celebrating three countries from our region and their respective Architecture Institutes at the 2026 INDE.Awards.
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Inside the global ethos of NICE PROJECTS
Founded by Simone McEwan and Sacha Leong, NICE PROJECTS is a globally connected studio built on collaboration, restraint and an ego-free approach to architecture and design.
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Keiji Ashizawa Design transforms historic Singapore restaurant
The Japanese firm brings elements of calm into Loca Niru, a fine-dining restaurant housed in a 146-year-old mansion in Singapore.
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Reframing the vertical: Lessons from Miami, Doha and the Gold Coast
Following the World Architecture Festival (WAF) towards the end of 2025, Plus Studio Director Michael McShanag reflects on high-rise living from Miami to the Gold Coast.
Workplace
Stepping into Singapore: Humanscale HQ marks APAC expansion
Humanscale’s new showroom is about the modern workplace, with ergonomic excellence, sustainable design and architectural heritage in Singapore.
Workplace
The changing workplace and why it demands good design
With Steelcase having reopened its refreshed WorkLife Showroom in Singapore this year, we spoke to Navedita Shergill about some key workplace macro shifts identified in their research.
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A new global innovation hub in Singapore for GEYER VALMONT
GEYER VALMONT is launching an innovation hub designed to improve existing interior design capability through enhanced ways of working and industry-leading technology products.
Workplace
Behind the Brand with Marcel Zalloua
From Valmont to GEYER VALMONT, Marcel Zalloua walks us through some of the milestones of what has been a fruitful, busy career in design.
Ideas
A winning appointment
Leading by design, Erik L’Heureux has recently taken the helm of Monash University’s Department of Architecture, and so a new and exciting journey begins for both L’Heureux and the University.
Events
In the spotlight at the 2025 INDE.Awards
Projects and people from across our region were certainly prominent at the 2025 INDE.Awards gala and in particular, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Singapore and Thailand made their presence felt.
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Celebrate! Marking 25 Years with INDESIGN #94
The latest print magazine is about to arrive! With Guest Editor Colin Seah of Ministry of Design (MOD), Singapore flooding our world with love, we are ready to party in style!
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Growing space: grovve by FARM and WY-TO reimagines youth wellness with design empathy
grovve sets a new benchmark in youth mental wellness design – an empathetic, biophilic sanctuary where mental wellbeing is nurtured through choice, comfort and co-creation.
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A Singapore resort “for those who appreciate both heritage and modernity”
At Raffles Sentosa Singapore, Yabu Pushelberg has crafted a narrative-driven resort experience where heritage, landscape and quiet luxury intertwine to create a deeply immersive retreat.
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Riverside restaurant history in Singapore
Dinding Design Office has crafted Jiak Kim House, an Asian restaurant rich with layers of history set on the banks of the Singapore River.
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Simone Haag decorates Capella Manor in Singapore
The Melbourne-based interior decorator mixes vintage pieces with botanical accents in Capella Singapore’s most exclusive dwellings.
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Entries open as WAF heads to Miami
Following Singapore last year, the World Architecture Festival (WAF) 2025 is moving to the US for the first time in its 18-year history.
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The bakery that Singapore kneaded
The design narrative by Hot Design Folks takes cues from the tactile process of baking, with each feature curated to improve the sensory experience.
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The fabulous fabulous New Bahru
In Singapore, old meets new and does it with style and grace in FARM’s culturally appropriate, site-specific design. It’s a place that provides connection for everyone who visits.
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A fusion of design and culture high up in Singapore’s Capital Tower
Kokaistudios’ first Singapore project is an 846-square-metre hospitality interior celebrating cultural synergy through its dynamic and vibrant aesthetics.
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Man x Machine x Material: Jarrod Lim and AI
Expert designer Jarrod Lim has collaborated with AI. While the process might have been interesting, the outcome is nothing less than remarkable.
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A garden paradise
A new hotel conceived by revered Singaporean architecture and design practice WOHA is just the place to stay when visiting the Lion City.
Articles
Inside Hafary House: A new shopping destination for materials and design ideas
Designed by FARM, the newly opened Hafary House prioritises customer engagement through an immersive and sensory shopping experience. Here’s what you can expect.
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Setting the highest hotel design standards in Singapore
The Standard has opened in Singapore, offering sophisticated hotel and hospitality design amidst lush greenery in a serene pocket of the city.
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Winners from the 2024 World Architecture Festival
Another Sydney project has taken out the top prize this year in Singapore, with a wide range of other winnings works from around the world.
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World Architecture Festival: Day One winners from Singapore
Fresh from Singapore, the first round of winners from day one of the World Architecture Festival have been announced.
Workplace
Aldwin Ong on CCD’s expansion to Singapore, AI integration and hospitality design
This insightful interview reveals how CCD Singapore plans to lead the luxury design industry through design innovation and adoption of AI technology in creating unique user experience.
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Working and connecting the MOD way
2024 INDE.Awards Luminary, Colin Seah, Founder and Director of Design, Ministry of Design has created a sensational workplace in Lavender Street, Singapore that promotes connection and explores the possibilities.
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Singapore Design Week preview: Putting people at the forefront of design
Singapore Design Week is back and bigger than ever with a people-orientated theme featuring diverse events, workshops, talks and tours.
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OMA’s David Gianotten kicks off Sydney Design Week
OMA Managing Partner – Architect David Gianotten made a fleeting visit for Sydney Design Week, catching up with our editor before his talk, ‘Beyond Architecture’.
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Lerouy is a culinary theatre
Lerouy is a Michelin-starred restaurant designed akin to a theatre hall, where each table is orientated towards an open kitchen and guests can watch the chef and his accompanying team.
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Nature and a humanised airport experience at Singapore’s Changi Airport
Paris-based architecture and interior design practice BOIFFILS Architectures has completed an expansion to the already impressive Changi Airport.
Events
Warming up for WAF: Shortlist announced for Singapore 2024
The shortlist for the 2024 World Architecture Festival has just been announced, with some standout nominees from our region.
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Advancing design innovation through collaboration
At the launch of Discovered Singapore, designers Nathan Yong and Tan Wei Xiang shared their experiences in this innovative project promoting emerging designers and sustainable design practices.
Ideas
Comment: Lighting and circular economy on a finite planet
In this comment piece, Matt Marshall, Head of Lighting Design at Cundall Singapore, considers circular thinking and how to make a high impact in the right way.
Articles
MillerKnoll solidifies Southeast Asian presence with Jakarta and Singapore partnerships
MillerKnoll, the design powerhouse born from the iconic merger of Herman Miller and Knoll, expands its reach in Southeast Asia with two major new dealerships.
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Extra XTRA, read all about the new design showroom in Singapore featuring brands from the MillerKnoll Collective
In a significant development for Southeast Asia’s design scene, XTRA has recently inaugurated a new showroom.
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Nature in the Kuala Lumpur sky at Lloyd’s Inn
Third in the series of boutique hotels under the Lloyd’s Inn brand, Lloyd’s Inn Kuala Lumpur bring the immediacy of nature to the new high-rise hospitality experience in the heart of a bustling city.
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Jeffrey Wilkes on refreshing the iconic Mandarin Oriental, Singapore
We spoke with Jeffrey Wilkes of WILKESDESIGN about the John Portman-designed building, which has been infused with touches of local culture and colour.
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Dining, cooking, learning, farming: AIR by OMA is a multifaceted adaptive reuse project in Singapore
Esteemed international practice OMA has completed AIR in Singapore, a genre-straddling project defined by openness and an emphasis on waste.
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A sense of place at Shanghai’s Shangri-la Qiantan by Takenouchi Webb
This executive lounge and Chinese restaurant in the Shangri-La Qiantan draws sumptuously from the architecture of Shanghai Shikumen houses.
Workplace
Banking with LAAB Architects, Singapore style
In Singapore a new workplace offers the perfect place to conduct business in comfort away from a bustling city.
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WY-TO on well-being for all in tropical cities of the future
In a time of climate emergency, how can cities support and balance the needs of their people and the planet, while ensuring their prosperity?
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Is designer furniture worth the investment?
It’s easy to dismiss designer furniture as frivolous. Discover what really drives the price from renowned designer Piero Lissoni and decide if it’s something you value.
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Towards a golden age of Australian architecture?
On the eve of 2024, our new editor, Timothy Alouani-Roby, addresses an exciting yet provocative open letter to the Australian architecture community on the opportunities of an era.
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Meet the design brains behind GROHE SPA at the World Architecture Festival
At the 2023 World Architecture Festival, we caught up with Antoine Besseyre Des Horts, leader at LIXIL Global Design, Asia to hear about the latest at GROHE.
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AIA Gold Medallist Kerstin Thompson at the World Architecture Festival
Timothy Alouani-Roby caught up with the Melbourne-based architect at the World Architecture Festival (WAF) after her AIA Gold Medal speech.
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Five insights from Australian designers at the 2023 World Architecture Festival
We asked prominent designers travelling to Singapore a simple question: what does Australian design bring to WAF? Here are the five main topics that came up.
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China and Sydney provide global standouts in the WAF winners list
After three days of crits, talks and presentations, the full winners of the 2023 World Architecture Festival have been announced.
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Winners at the World Architecture Festival in Singapore
The 2023 World Architecture Festival (WAF) features no less than 44 category prizes – find out about the winners and commendations from days one and two here.
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Export your architecture: New international agreements make it easier to practise overseas
A set of landmark agreements made by the Architects Accreditation Council of Australia is ensuring that Australian and New Zealand architects will find it easier to have their professional registration recognised internationally.
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When is enough, enough? Singapore Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale
To be housed in the 1460 armoury building Sale d’Armi in Arsenale, Venice, this year’s Singapore Pavilion responds to the 18th International Architecture Exhibition’s theme — The Laboratory of The Future — but taking the form of a giant evolving machine that seeks to understand our true desires for how we live in the city.
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Thriving on change: Siren announces new global CEO
Hot on the heels of this week’s announcement of Siren’s new global CEO, Penny Sloane, we speak with Penny and Siren’s ‘OG’, Mia Feasey.
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Fire, skulls and AC/DC: This is Burnt Ends
This Michelin-starred barbecue restaurant in downtown Singapore is truly on fire! With a dramatic interior as the backdrop, Burnt Ends is a visual design feast with its own singular style.
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Gensler’s Singapore office stands tall despite state of flux
The practice’s new office on the CBD fringe of Singapore offers a window into the future of hybrid work.
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How can privately owned public space transform our cities?
From 1960s New York when private developers were incentivised to create civic space in the public realm, to today: where POPS tread a fine line between the private and the public. Denton Corker Marshall looks at how we can bridge the two.
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The Work Project and Hassell are changing the flexible workplace sector
Read this round-table discussion between Hassell and The Work Project in Singapore, about their vision for delivering co-working spaces to an increasingly competitive flexible workplace sector.
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OBJKT Studio on culture, craft and nurturing their life-long design vision
Launched in 2020, OBJKT Studio is driven by a continuous quest for new perspectives and insights and an undying passion for discovering complex, innovative methods that fuse design traditions of the past, present and future.
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How the pandemic worked in favour of co-working spaces
With organisations and professionals rethinking work and the workplace, co-working spaces may just be the most appealing solution to the hybrid working model in a post-pandemic world.
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These beautiful objects are made from waste
Waste not want not! These bold and innovative creators are designing objects and fashion using waste as their starting point.
People
How to cultivate workplace wellness, culture and connectivity
After working remotely for months, what do we want to see in the future workplace? Gensler’s Singapore managing director Angela Spathonis shares some innovative strategies for a new hybrid workplace model.
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Citi Wealth Hub brings a colossal jungle inside
The Citi Wealth Hub’s giant, glass conservatory is home to a veritable jungle – just part of the reason it won at this year’s INDE.Awards.
People
The purposeful practice that is Collectively Ours
Design consultancy COLOURS tears down the architecture and public space silos to create meaningful places for people and the environment.
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FARM returns to origins for its design of Aesop’s new store
Earthy orchards and elemental processes form the design genesis of Aesop’s store at ION Orchard in Singapore.
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Reflecting on 2020 with the JAC Chair
Design firms from Asia present their take on 2020 in a design competition by Zenith Interiors.
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Studio SKLIM carves a café out of concrete in Singapore
A curvaceous counter connects customers with their barista at Voids Café, a compact café in River Valley, Singapore, designed by Studio SKLIM.
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[Don’t] Lose yourself at the Qantas First Lounge Singapore
One of only four worldwide, Caon Studio and Akin Atelier collaboratively see to it that you won’t want to leave the newly unveiled Qantas First Lounge at Singapore’s Changi Airport.
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New space, new identity for Stylecraft Singapore
Stylecraft and HASSELL’s collaborative legacy of awe-inspiring showroom interiors has breached new frontiers with the new Stylecraft Singapore showroom.
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A new cross-over typology: Project #13 by Studio Wills
With this smart and forward-looking renovation of a 30-year-old Singaporean public housing flat, STUDIO WILLS + Architects topped INDE.Awards 2019 Living Space category, partnered by Gaggenau.
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How commercial doors secure the Changi Airport design
When the Changi Airport needed commercial doors throughout their new terminal, they knew they needed something secure, but also stylish – enter the Australian Trellis Door Company.
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Tropical colonial? HASSELL designs Dolcetto and Tea Lounge at the Regent
HASSELL creates a duo of spaces that celebrate the art of enjoying afternoon tea with a unique take on the tropical colonial aesthetic at the Regent Singapore.
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The Working Capitol, Robinson Road Singapore by HASSELL
Has co-working been up-staged by the pervading popularity of an out-of-office culture? The answer is, not quite yet! In their latest design for The Working Capitol Robinson Road Singapore, HASSELL expertly subverts pop culture tropes to re-envisage co-working as a progressive yet playful model that speaks the language of the Millennial workforce.
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RACE Robotics by Ministry Of Design
Globally recognized design house Ministry of Design has recently aligned RACE Robotics Lab with what they call ‘Smart Industry’. MOD’s spatial experience and branding for the new RACE robotics facility provides education about industrial automation.
Articles
Zenith Interiors: Now in Singapore!
For the last 60 years, Zenith has been evolving, learning and growing.
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Rebranding Lloyd’s Inn
Luxury boutique hotel Lloyd’s Inn, in Singapore near the bustling Orchard Road, has had a re-branding. Part of that meant a re-vamp of the entire design. Multidisciplinary practice FARM has taken a no-frills, minimalist approach, capturing the hotel’s holistic mission. Olha Romaniuk has the story.
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Design for design Students: Singapore Polytechnic’s New School
How do you design a school for design students? For Singapore Polytechnic, the environment had to help shape students’ design thinking, inspire and spark new ideas and discourse.
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International Furniture Fair Singapore
It’s almost showtime in Singapore, Indesign’s Paul McGillick looks at what makes IFFS an increasingly important event on the globe’s annual design calendar