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FiveFootWay - one year on.
By Adib J on May 31, 2008

Sometime in May 2006, 2 architecture students in the National University of Singapore met up for coffee and the idea of doing an indie publication that would ...

Cityscapers: Felicity
By Adib J on April 18, 2008

Felicity (n): happiness: state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy "What if a city is built on a foundation of happiness?" The FeliCity ...

Queue up for that Pritzker, please
By JJ Yeo on March 31, 2008

Jean Nouvel, the bold French architect known for such wildly diverse projects as the multi-chromatic Torre Agbar Tower in Barcelona and the exotically louvered Arab World Institute in ...

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By Debbie Loo on March 14, 2008

The Site is never a blank canvas – it is always already a palimpsest of narratives and forces. This video installation elucidates a particular narrative in the site of the NUS Arts Canteen – of dislocated forces ...

Thinking about Cool
By JJ Yeo on February 20, 2008

From theCoolhunter.net : "Our first book, the World’s Coolest Hotel Rooms,

Broadway…Bigness for the Masses!
By Darryl Wee on February 13, 2008

Metabolism started in Tokyo in the sixties, coinciding roughly with the activities of other experimental and theoretical urban cell-groups, like Archigram and its "plug-in city" projects. The Metabolists rejected orderly town-square layouts, claiming that ...

By FFW on February 7, 2008

All of us at the FiveFootWay and 5ft Creatives would like to wish all our Chinese readers a Prosperous Chinese New Year! 恭喜发财!

A Letter about Architectural Criticism
By Adib J on February 2, 2008

Many would have read Non's Article "Culture of Criticism" and here is an article long overdue which would add on to the context of what Non is talking about. A couple of months ago, I received an email ...

Culture of Criticism: A Morning Thought
By Non Arkaraprasertkul on January 22, 2008

I woke up one morning – it was a Saturday – and checked my email before 8am as usual and found an email written to me by a presumably young and enthusiastic reader of architecture. The content ...

Rewind
By JJ Yeo on January 2, 2008

2007 was a year of massive change. Quoting Bruce Mau and the Institute without Boundaries, “Design has emerged as one of the world’s most powerful forces. It has placed us at the beginning of a ...