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Monthly Archives: December 2009
Gardens by the Bay: Landscape architecture designs released
Having won the international competition organised by Singapore’s National Parks Board, Grant Associates and Gustafson Porter recently released up to date images depicting their designs for the Gardens by the Bay, part of the next phase of the city’s masterplan. … Continue reading
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Reclaiming the Taj
Mumbai – A year after 26/11, the Taj Mahal Hotel is not just reclaiming a past, but also creating a new identity – room by room. The hotel’s first reaction to the attacks was to just restore what was damaged, … Continue reading
Rescuing the mall situation
Dilapidation within a shopping mall, or shopping centres as we call them, would be a very unlikely sight where most of us live. In Singapore, malls have almost become part of the requisite kit of parts deployed in new towns, … Continue reading
A Record of Change: Shenzhen and Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture
“At the top of Shenzhen’s Lotus Hill, a statue of Deng Xiaoping is frozen in purposeful mid-stride. From here he gazes down on this southern Chinese boom city, teeming with 14 million inhabitants, separated from Hong Kong only by a … Continue reading
Cities for Cycling: Creating Bike Friendly Streets
“Corbusier’s idea was to kill the streets. Thank God he failed.” Cities for Cycling: Creating Bike-Friendly Streets: “Cities, Bicycles, and the Future of Getting Around,” at the Newseum in Washington DC, USA. Former Talking Heads’ frontman David Byrne and others … Continue reading