tropical living
Products
5 inspiring architecture and design books that span decades of innovation
Embark on a visual and intellectual journey through architectural excellence and rethinking of tropical living.
Project
Dated ‘60s house renovated into a modern family home that embraces the great outdoors
Quod Architects designs an environmentally-sustainable ‘outdoor house’ fit for Singapore’s tropical climate, marrying nature and the man-made, present and future.
Project
Linghao Architects designs an atypical tropical house
A roof that drips, windows with no glass, a stair between patches of grass – Linghao Architects’ renovation to a house in Singapore allows its occupants to live with nature’s vicissitudes.
People
Gwen Tan on the art of living in the tropics
Gwen Tan is an architect with an illustrious career, designing homes that not only make a statement in their manipulation of form, but also in the way they respond to the owners, “adapting and evolving” over time.