The 50% Nobody Fully Counts
The Missing Half of Building Emissions: Singapore’s data shows tenant electricity use can account for about half of total building electricity consumption in office and retail developments. As electricity is a major driver of operational carbon—and recurring fit outs add significant embodied impacts—tenant interiors are emerging as a critical decarbonisation blind spot that most building level metrics fail to accurately capture.
From River System to Material System
RiverRecycle is a test of whether polluted waterways can support a working recovery system—one tied to local labour, river conditions, and downstream material use, rather than to one-off environmental campaigns.
The Resort Landscape Is Now an Operating Risk
For Indonesia’s hospitality pipeline, landscape is no longer a finishing layer. Water, soil, heat, planting and maintenance are becoming asset-performance questions.
Exclusive Interview With Allen Ang, Head, Green Building, Decarbonisation & Safety, City Developments Limited; President, Singapore Green Building Council
Allen Ang looks at what Singapore’s built environment decarbonisation agenda demands as it moves beyond targets and into the owner realities.
The Unpublished Layer: Nipun Prabhakar on What Architecture Photographs Cannot Fully Hold
Interview The Unpublished Layer: Nipun Prabhakar on What Architecture Photographs Cannot Fully Hold Candice Lim I first knew architect, photographer and community practitioner Nipun Prabhakar years ago, when he approached me with a Charles Correa story I could not refuse. He went on to write regularly for the magazine I used to run, often supporting […]
Can a Small Private Building Become a Better Urban Neighbour?
At Naka-Ikebukuro Park, KEY OPERATION’s Clerestory Garden tests a modest urban proposition: how a privately owned shop-and-residence building can respond to a hard-working public plaza through frontage, planting, light and tenant activity.
Southeast Asia Energy & Decarbonisation Watchlist
A regional watchlist of energy and decarbonisation projects where rising fuel exposure, power demand, renewable procurement and 2030 climate targets are beginning to meet project delivery.
When a Cyclone Shelter Becomes a Landmark
In Kuakata, two very different projects suggest that resilience depends not only on structural safety, but on whether a building is known, trusted and folded into community life.
Southeast Asia Adaptation Watchlist
A regional watchlist of adaptation projects and programmes where climate risk is entering coastal protection, flood control, community resilience finance, drainage systems and outdoor work planning.
Exclusive Interview: Vicky Chan on Designing for Real Need
Interview/Sustainability Exclusive Interview: Vicky Chan on Designing for Real Need A lightly edited transcript of a Zoom conversation with Vicky Chan, founder of Vicky Chan + Partners. Candice Lim Award-winning architect Vicky Chan has worked across architecture, landscape, sustainability, education and community-centred design. I first knew Vicky some years ago, when he was invited as […]
