Can Regenerative Collectives Offer a Different Way to Live with Land in India?
This contributed essay asks whether regenerative collectives can reconnect living, food, water, livelihoods and ecological repair under intensifying urban and resource pressures.
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The Unpublished Layer: Nipun Prabhakar on What Architecture Photographs Cannot Fully Hold
Interview The Unpublished Layer: Nipun Prabhakar on What Architecture Photographs Cannot Fully Hold Candice Lim I first knew architect, photographer and community practitioner Nipun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.
