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Exciting news: Indesignlive is expanding across the region!
Indesign Media has announced a significant milestone with the consolidation of multiple platforms into a single regional go-to source for design professionals and enthusiasts.
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Cubes 104: Diversity & Inclusion is out now!
Cubes 104 explores the desire in creating livable cities for all, fostering equitable workplace culture, embracing cognitive inclusion in learning environments and more.
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Cubes 103 launches on a high note!
Cubes Issue 103 was officially launched at Steelcase Worklife Singapore with a soiree and a specially curated Design Conversation session.
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Cubes 103: Making An Impact is out now!
How do we build a resilient future?Cubes 103 explores the desire and resolve for sustainable development, which balances social, economic and environmental sustainability.
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Cubes 102: Rethink, Reinvent is out now!
What do we want from our built environment? How can we create quality places that people want to live, work, play, and learn in? Cubes 102 is a wide-reaching investigation into placemaking.
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Cubes 101: Make It Work is out now!
After a year of upheaval in the workplace, what does the workplace of today (and the future) need to address? Cubes 101 focuses on workplaces that provide clues on the way forward.
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Thinking beyond the box when it comes to packaging
With the rise of e-commerce, it’s time we reconsider what packaging is for, says regular columnist Justin Zhuang. There is opportunity for better performance in terms of brand experience and the reduction of waste.
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Get Your Free Cubes E-Mag (Issue #99) Today!
Cubes 99 is out now! But don’t worry if you can’t get your print copy right away, it’s also availableas a special free e-mag!
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Cubes 99: Emotive Spaces
Cubes issue 99 is out now! It recognises that at the core of the experience economy is emotion. And it’s available as a special free e-mag in case you can’t access your print copy right now!
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Cubes 98: Working With Intent
What do we work toward when we work with intent? And how can our workspaces best support high performance? Cubes 98 is a wide-reaching investigation into how, why and where we work.
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Cubes Issue 97: Re-Nature Is Out!
Cubes issue 97 is out now! It celebrates design that aligns with natural systems and offers valuable lessons in how we could create better environments by thinking far beyond ourselves.
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Cubes 97: Re-Nature
Cubes issue 97 is out now! It celebrates design that aligns with natural systems and offers valuable lessons in how we could create better environments by thinking far beyond ourselves.
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Realrich Sjarief’s Open Experimentations
How can an architectural practice contribute to its neighbourhood? How can it serve as a testbed for innovative architectural solutions? Indonesian architect Realrich Sjarief shares his experience.
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Cubes 96: Consuming Encounters
What and how are we consuming in the spaces where we socialise, relax, play and shop? How are brand, experience and social interaction colliding in new ways? Cubes 96 takes a broad look at encounters of consumption.
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Cubes 96: Consuming Encounters Is Out Now!
What and how are we consuming in the spaces where we socialise, relax, play and shop? How are brand, experience and social interaction colliding in new ways? Cubes 96 takes a broad look at encounters of consumption.
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The Evolution Of Home By Aamer Architects And Terre
How is our engagement with our residential typologies evolving? Aamer Taher and Terre have transformed a heritage-listed terrace house into a jewel box of forms and experiences.
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Cubes Issue 95: Work Place Is Out Now!
What does the ‘place’ in workplace really mean? Cubes 95 investigates the extent to which the workplace is being redefined for human experience and to facilitate the most effective communication between people.
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Cubes 95: Work Places
What does the ‘place’ in workplace really mean? Cubes 95 investigates the extent to which the workplace is being redefined for human experience and to facilitate the most effective communication between people.
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Cubes 94: We Dwell
What’s most important to us in our homes, across the range of scales, types and locations? Cubes 94 focuses on the creation of homes that are sensitive, efficient, meaningful and delightful.
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Meta Architecture And Lua Architects Associates Weave Old And New At The Khong Guan Building
Meta Architecture and Lua Architects Associates turn the challenges posed by the former Khong Guan Biscuit Factory’s tricky site into an opportunity to serve up a delightfully complex spatial experience.
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The Essence Of Experience At Shiseido The Store
How can brand expression in a retail environment be elevated to immersive ends? Onndo, the collaborative studio of Nendo and Nomura, took an artisanal approach to the spatial design for Shiseido’s flagship store in Tokyo, where macro and micro discoveries await.
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Cubes 93: Designing Well(ness)
What is the role of architects and designers in fostering wellness? Cubes 93 casts an eye over healthcare design as well as the pursuit of wellness in hospitality, the workplace, and community facilities.
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A Consuming Encounter In Ho Chi Minh City
Japanese studio 07BEACH disrupts a Ho Chi Minh City streetscape and the typical retail interface with a cheese tart bakery that offers augmented forms of consumption.
People
Turenscape: Creating Sponge Cities
Dr Yu Kongjian, the founder of multi-disciplinary design and engineering firm Turenscape, is a leader in the development of landscapes that combat flooding while repairing ecological damage and winning hearts.
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Cubes 92: Design Digestion
How is design consumed? Or is it consuming us? Cubes issue 92 takes a moment to digest design, to ruminate on how we use it to improve the ways we live, how it is increasingly become a sought-after currency, and how narratives are in ever-greater demand.
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Cubes 91: Designing Resilience
How can design last longer, perform better, and do more? We probe how architects and designers are responding the realities of our time, addressing the value of endurance, and thinking ahead to potential futures.
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Gensler Singapore: Connectivity, Passion And Transparency
How does a global design mega firm work? In Cubes 90, Nayan Parekh of Gensler Singapore shares some of the inner workings of one of the world’s most progressive workplace thought leaders.
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Cubes Issue 90: Get To Work!
What more should we expect of the workplace? What will it take to create a world where you leave your workplace healthier than when you came in? A number of features in Cubes 90 (Feb/Mar/Apr) highlight health and wellbeing as critical factors at work.
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Container Entertainers
Seoul-based creative agency Urbantainer is one of Korea’s go-to companies for container architecture and experience design. We find out how shipping containers can be used to promote emotional experiences.
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Qualities and Commodities in a Supermarket
A supermarket that makes you want to linger? Jo Nagasaka of Schemata Architects brought the unlikely notion to physical reality with a communicative interior for Fukushimaya Tasting Market in Tokyo.
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Cubes Issue 89: Pursuit of Productivity
Cubes 89 (Dec/Jan) picks up a number of ‘construction productivity’ threads and seeks examples of projects where a concern for efficiency is paired with an equal concern for the human experience.
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Heatherwick Studio Finds the Soul in the Machine
Digital design and fabrication methods can generate otherwise unimaginable forms. But what will be missing if human minds and hands are expelled from the process? We ask Heatherwick Studio in Cubes 87. Here’s a preview of the article!
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Cubes Issue 87: Design is Digital
How are digital techniques affecting the practice and outcomes of design? Cubes Aug/Sept finds out.
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When Comfort Matters Most: Palliative Care ‘In Conversation’
Creating an environment in which to care for people with life-limiting illnesses brings fundamental aspects of comfort into focus. For Cubes 86, Narelle Yabuka spoke with the CEO and the architect of palliative care centre Assisi Hospice about its high-density new building.
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Cubes Issue 86: Are You Comfortable?
The June/July issue of Cubes hits the shelves and asks, ‘Are you comfortable?’ It’s worth taking a minute to think about it…
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The #Salone17 Review: What More Should We Expect From Milan?
For anyone who couldn’t make it to Milan’s Salone del Mobile and Design Week this year, Cubes magazine’s Milan in Review panel at Xtra had all the need-to-know insights!
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In, Out And Through
How can a house built on the footprint of an old inward-focused home facilitate a dialogue with its surroundings? Take a peek at our Cubes 85 feature to see how Materium and Dangarch Consultants answer with an experiential internal passage and a series of openings.
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Takenouchi Webb: The Care Factor
For Naoko Takenouchi and Marc Webb, it is care – for the experience and details of a space, and for professional responsibility – that defines a designer’s duties. Here we present a glimpse of Yvonne Xu’s Cubes #85 feature on the studio.
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Cubes Issue 85: We look different, don’t we?
Well yes (and fabulous, we might add), but our mission is the same: to bring you what matters most in design in Singapore and Asia. And what a fantastic mission it is.
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Cubes Indesign Issue 84: A Sneak Peek
Produce Workshop’s process of making a rippling, soaring plywood installation for Xtra; young architects talk about setting up their own studios; and much more in our upcoming issue.
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Cubes Indesign: Issue 82 Out Now
Today’s shifts in workplace design; the rise of co-working; radical retail design; a fresh take on elements of traditional tropical houses; and much more in our latest issue.
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In Conversation with Christian Flindt
In light of the release of his new LP Grand lighting system for Louis Poulsen, Danish designer Christian Flindt tells us how he started working with Louis Poulsen and the silent quality of light.
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The New, The Old And The Subconscious
We extend our Cubes Indesign issue 80 coverage of the Salone del Mobile in Milan with Naoto Fukasawa’s thoughts and his latest work for Magis.
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CUBES INDESIGN: ISSUE 76 OUT NOW
A conversation about the changing hospitality industry; an award-winning house by RT+Q Architects; a mature design personality for Twitter’s Asia Pacific HQ courtesy of Siren Design; a contemporary take on the monastery by Multiply Architects; the diverse portfolio of eco.id; and much more in our latest issue.
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Cubes Indesign: Issue 74 Out Now
W Architects create a rock-like form for the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum; Heatherwick Studio and CPG Consultants explore the communicative potentials of a tertiary education building; Rattan takes new forms via Abie Abdillah and Studio SKLIM; The bold sensitivity of architect Chang Yong Ter.
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Cubes Indesign – Issue 65 Out Now
Conversations with RT+Q Architects, Colin Seah and Claus Sendlinger, Ben van Berkel of UNStudio and many more make for a fascinating read.
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Cubes Indesign – Issue 64 Out Now
The latest issue of Cubes features Peter Tay, WOHA’s latest office building and a slew of seductive F&B establishments.