Archifest
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Upcoming highlights at Singapore Archifest 2025
From guided tours of stunning private homes to playful installations in Katong-Joo Chiat, this year’s Archifest invites everyone to explore how design shapes daily life – no architectural degree required.
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Design events not to be missed this September
There’s plenty to see and do this month, but there’s so little time. We’ve narrowed down our top picks to make life easier.
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Archifest 2019 Festival Director Alan Tay On Craft And Its Marginalisation
Archifest 2019 opens tonight! We find out more from this year’s Festival Director Alan Tay on the theme ‘Craft’ and its relevance and marginalisation within the context of Singapore’s architecture.
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10 Events You Don’t Want To Miss At Archifest 2019
Scheduled to run from 27 September to 9 October 2019, Archifest 2019 offers more than 40 activities. Don’t know where to start? Here are 10 ideas!
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Regional Wrap, October 2018: From Indesign Media’s Singapore Desk
This month, the editorial team has spent as much time out of the Indesign Media offices as in. Here’s a regional wrap of some of the major happenings and directions around the region, and further afield.
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SIA Conference 2018 Recap Part 2: ‘Design For Environment’ And ‘Design For Life’
More architects addressed the fundamentals of their creative efforts in part two of our recap of this year’s Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA) Conference, held during Archifest.
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SIA Conference 2018 Recap Part 1: ‘Design For People’ and ‘Design for Time’
Architects addressed the fundamentals of their creative efforts at this year’s Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA) Conference, held during Archifest.
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URA’s 3D-Printed Sugar Prada Aoyama Wins WATG’s Great Architectural Bake-Off 2018
3D-printed sugar glazing, fondant buddha, and gold foiled temple – here are the spice and everything nice from Archifest x WATG’s Great Architectural Bake Off 2018!
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What Does It Mean To Design For Life? Yann Follain Talks About The Archifest 2018 Theme
The Archifest 2018 Festival Director talks about the current state of the architecture industry and crafting the festival experience around sub-themes ‘Design for People’, ‘Design for Time’ and ‘Design for Environment’.
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10 Things To Do At Archifest 2018
Scheduled to run from 28 September to 10 October 2018, Archifest 2018 offers more than 50 activities. Don’t know where to start? Here are 10 ideas!
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Archifest 2018 Will Focus On How Design Can Most Meaningfully Serve People
Festival Director Yann Follain of WY-TO brings his human-centric mindset to Archifest this year. A pavilion by Kite Studio Architecture will be the anchor space.
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Why Do We Write About Architecture?
Why is it important that architecture is written about, published and publicised? A panel of practitioners, authors and editors weighed in during Archifest 2017.
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WATG x Archifest Great Architectural Bake-Off
The inaugural Asian edition of the Great Architectural Bake-Off saw some of the region’s landmarks rise (and almost fall) from flour and sugar.
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SIA Conference @ Archifest: Are Architects Agents of Change?
As part of the conversations on ‘Building Agency’ at this year’s SIA Conference, architectural practitioners and academics shed light on the increasingly collaborative nature of their work and the importance of disrupting norms.
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Archifest 2017: Building Agency
Taking the theme of ‘Building Agency’, the 2017 edition of Archifest seeks to facilitate and build up agency and citizen participation through architecture with a line up of more than 50 events.
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A Purposeful Design Collaboration
The winning team of a collaborative design challenge – held during the Archifest 2016 – is now auctioning their prizes for charity.
Ideas
Designed Ecologies for the Art of Survival
Lessons modern cities can learn from stunning landscapes in China.
Project
A Pavilion That Invites Pause
Offering a welcoming breather in the heart of Singapore’s busy business district, DP Architects’ Archifest Pavilion invites the public to connect with each other and with the surrounding environment through design.
People
Manfred Yuen: Architect For The People
Yvonne Xu finds out how Hong Kong based architect Manfred Yuen practices architecture with a social agenda.