ARCHIFEST 08- What to expect

ARCHIFEST 08 officially kicks off on 6th October 2008 and we are here to tell you what you can look forward to in the month-long festival.

Exhibitions

There will be a whole lot of exhibitions happening at the main venue of Archifest 08- National Library, Singapore. . FIVEFOOTWAY suggests that you spend a good 1 to 2 hours there, looking at the various works on display. Here are the highlights.

• 9th SIA Architectural Design Award
• SIA-NParks Skyrise Greenery Awards
• SIA-Hunter Douglas “Eco Friend Awards”
• SIA-Philips Green Innovation Award
• SIA-Getz Architecture Prize
• Student Exhibition by Singapore Polytechnic
• Man+Environment Showcase
• Bras Basah.Bugis (BBB) District Exhibition by URA

Architours

This year, Architours travel to Biopolis at One-North, Wessex Estate, Lasalle College of the Arts and Marina Barrage. When the sun goes down, tours will continue to several architects’ offices to get an insight into how our built environment is conceptualized, ending off with drinks at various bars.

This is a ticketed event and most of the tours are already fully booked so you got to be quick to be part of it!

For more information, visit http://archifest.sg/architours.html. For ticketing, go to www.sistic.com.sg

Forum

The highlight of the whole Archifest 08. Happening on the 16th and 17th of October at National Library, this forum features the theme “Man + Environment” and re-examines the relationship of Architecture with the Environment. Speakers line-up include Richard Hassell of WOHA, Andrew Maynard (Australia), Fernando Menis (Spain) and more.

After the forum, don’t miss the networking party at Naumi Hotel to have an informal chat with the speakers and also catch up with some old and newer friends!

For more information, visit http://archifest.sg/forum.html.

Fringe Events

There are more than 20 Fringe events in this year’s Archifet 08! The fringe events range from workshops and seminars to photography exhibitions to screening sessions. As a matter of fact, we (5ft Creatives) will be showcasing a NEW episode of our Emerging Architecture Studios series at the National Library throughout the whole festival!

We think that there is something for everyone in this year’s line-up of fringe events. Check out the calendar, take your pick and visit/get involved in a few of them and see what the theme Man + Environment truly means to you! See the whole list of events on http://archifest.sg/fringe.html

FIVEFOOTWAY.com coverage

FIVEFOOTWAY.com is proud to be the official online media of ARCHIFEST 08 and here’s what you can expect from us.

News Updates
Supplementing the official newsletter and the official website, FIVEFOOTWAY.com will be broadcasting the latest news updates from Archifest 08. To see all posts on FIVEFOOTWAY related to the festival, click here.

Speaker Profiles
FIVEFOOTWAY will be posting a special series of articles, profiling the various speakers at Archifest 08 Forum. We will give you a quick initiation to these talented designers, highlighting their design philosophies and key works and perhaps send you to a link or two for further reading.

Interviews
We’ve planned special interviews with the various forum speakers, award winners and organisers of Archifest 08. We think it will be a brilliant series of interviews and you can expect these to be online in October and November.

Event Reports
Our writers will be there to participate and cover the events so you can look forward to a comprehensive coverage of the ceremonies and exhibitions. Also, this year, we are collaborating closely with Singapore Architect’s magazine to provide coverage of the various events in Archifest 08. So, expect to see some of online-offline integration of the various event reports.

Photos
Our writers will be on site and we will be taking plenty of photographs to share it with you. But more importantly, if YOU have photos, do share it with everyone. Either email it to us OR upload it to your blog/Flickr/Picasa and send us the link and we will compile it all to share with everyone!

So now you know what to expect for Archifest 08, see you around!