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 ...

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

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 ...

Maybe your image of Tokyo coincides with one of two stereotypes, both mistaken. 1. Old, thatched and wooden dwellings with 'partitioned' space created by sliding screens and modular tatami mats; or 2. A fantastic mess of soaring and colliding ...

With the new Architecture Park, Jinhua now has its own outdoor gallery of starchitect commissions. Just like how Design has become marketed as recreation and lifestyle in a way that art once was, this may be architecture's terminal ...

Tokyo was pretty when it was uglier.

And so I write this, in this modern day and age, in the age of me-ness, where the individual is king. Instant gratification, instant satisfaction - that’s the buzz that’s been circulating the globe. It comes as no surprise or novelty that I say that architecture has become victim to that too. Architecture with a capital A. But everyone knows that this is only the case for the big architects; the starchitects, as they’ve been aptly coined. Whatever happened to the everyday architect?

Singaporeans and Singapore-lovers! It is time to voice your opinions on what the new National Art Gallery will be. Three designs have been shortlisted for Singapore’s new National Art Gallery, which will be completed in five years. The final winner will be announced early next year but before that the public can have a say on the final design. Channel News Asia's website has already begun collecting opinions, something which we appreciate very much - you can post all your thoughts, and even upload images, here. A unique opportunity to work with civic monuments of such scale and historical importance, this project will add a new dimension to the cultural and art spaces in Singapore. Optimistic and ambitious to say the least, this project will attempt a surgical feat in trying to insert a brand new program into the company of age-old buildings. The Supreme Court building and the City Hall have stood resiliently all these years, exuding a quiet strength all their own. How these 3 designs will intervene with this context will remain vague until the designs are released in a public exhibition later in October 2007.

So I found myself at a recent tea session with some friends, all of whom were not in the occupation of architecture or urban planning. Over the course of the afternoon, it came to me that my friends had some interesting and very relevant concerns - literally a storm brewing in a teacup – they were worried about 23 Amber Road.

Few could blame me when I took a double-take the other day as I read about Pittsburgh placing 10th as the cleanest city in the world. Yes, industrial Pittsburgh- the one where you can literally feel dust latching onto skin the moment you hit the tarmac while twitching your nose in disdain. Being the Singaporean that I was, I hastily scoured the list for our tiny island nation. Guess what? We were placed 50th.