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Cityscapes That Thrive: How Urban Form Influences Liveability

From port cities to landlocked towns, the natural landscape surrounding an inhabited area influences how a city and its infrastructure are designed. The layout of the infrastructure network often decides a town's potential growth and expansion.

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Designing cities for People

Human scale environment means designing everyday objects and places that are comfortable in size for an average person. Well-thought urban design and placemaking initiatives can transform urban centres into serene spaces.

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The Rise of Smart Asian Cities

As Asia continues to urbanise, the importance of sustainable urban living cannot be overstated. Smart city initiatives offer a pathway to create liveable yet environmentally conscious cities.

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Building the Ideal City: Key factors for Urban Living

By combining strategic planning, innovative design, and policy integration, planners envision the ideal place to live.

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Reimagining Cities

If you had been given a crystal ball to gaze into the future 50 years ago, would you have gasped?

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Realising Future Cities

The onus is on governments, architects, and other stakeholders to design and build smarter cities that are productive, sustainable, and equitable.

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Embracing Culture – The Role of Sacred Spaces

Sacred spaces have played a pivotal role as both public and communal spaces throughout human history. In Asia, religious spaces have always been associated with social gatherings and cultural events.

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Empowering social interaction through urban design

What makes a good city? Economic opportunity, equity, amenities and also the possibility to build connections and be part of a community.

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Designing for Diversity and Inclusivity

Design affects the way we move, see, hear and communicate. People perceive, experience and interpret places differently. It is, therefore, imperative that we acknowledge this diversity and design for it.

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Community-driven Conscious Design

Designing a sustainable space requires a holistic approach. Spaces can be genuinely sustainable only if they prioritise the needs, experiences and aspirations of the people. It is essential to place the community at the heart of the project, observe, engage and design with and for them.

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Future-proofing Through Flexible design

In many cases, flexibility is fundamental to future expansion. Many buildings are designed with this in mind, including affordable incremental housing to commercial buildings with phase-wise development.

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Climate-Sensitive and Efficient Design

The AEC industry is responsible for a substantial slice of carbon emissions. A considerable part of these emissions can be reduced through mindful choices, sustainable strategies and efficient design.

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Harnessing AI in the Modelling of Built Spaces

Artificial intelligence and machine learning have been working their way into most major industries. Social media and Big Data started the ball rolling with their ever-changing content algorithms and of late, we see the influence of AI in healthcare, infrastructure, and digital art

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Decarbonising the AEC Industry

The built environment is responsible for 39% of all global carbon emissions, far higher than any other individual sector. Extensive efforts from the AEC industry will be needed to meet the world's net zero goals.

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Walking into the Future

Designing safer cities for pedestrians. Walking is the oldest form of transportation, and it has been crucial to the growth of cities right to the present.

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Mitigating sea-level rise

Global sea levels are rising as a result of human-caused global warming and climate change. The rising sea levels are putting coastal cities around the world at risk of becoming inundated.

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Inclusive design for an ageing population

The success of design is marked by its functionality and quality. The first step in the pursuit of good design is to understand the users and design the experience for them. With the world developing and cities growing, are all stakeholders taken into consideration?

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The Future of Transportation

Infrastructure has drastically evolved as sustainable energy sources are embraced. See how technological developments like electric cars will impact urban planning.

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Parks and Recreation

As our cities become more densely populated and the impact of climate change intensifies, parks and public lands will take on greater significance. In addition to being sites of recreational activities and community engagement, parks provide environmental benefits by reducing surface temperature, protecting groundwater, regulating stormwater and purifying the air we breathe.

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The Rise of Space as a Service

Co-working spaces entail a complete mindset switch from how we view workspaces. The coronavirus pandemic was a compelling reason to embrace this initiative. Remote workers need to feel they belong somewhere, even if the premises are shared.

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Building Green Farming Technology

The global population is projected to rise to 9.7 billion by 2050, out of which almost 55 percent is set to be in Asia according to the United Nations. Coupled with this unprecedented rate of urbanisation, the demand for food supply from rural areas and shrinking farmlands is on a steep rise.

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Revolution Afoot for the Built Environment Industry

The built environment industry has been undergoing a rapid slowdown. The pandemic and the strict actions taken by the various countries to curb the spread of the virus has only exacerbated the situation. The industry witnessed a shortage of labourers, disruption of the supply chain, operational limitations and, in some cases, halting of ongoing projects.

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Integrated Digital Delivery (IDD) for the Built Environment

Enhanced communication and trust are paramount across a diverse portfolio of data and applications in the construction industry. How does one best demonstrate the various solutions and updated data sources to all stakeholders across the design process?

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Post Pandemic Design: A Greater Focus on Wellness

The COVID-19 pandemic has shaped the world in previously unimaginable ways. Every industry has been forced to adapt and evolve. The pandemic's impact on global wellness is now undeniable, from both an organizational level and individual level. This has made it essential for designers to rethink how we design spaces - both indoors and outdoors - keeping the wellness of the users in mind and designing a healthier world.

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Why Digitalisation Is The First Step In Evolving The Built Environment

As buzzwords go, Agility and Mobility occupy top-of-mind for many PMETs. At ONG&ONG, these terms have been increasingly embraced over the last five years; the COVID-19 pandemic has only served to burnish their importance.

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Living With The Pandemic, What The New Normal Means For Architecture And Design

When the pandemic hit early last year, adaptability quickly became the determining factor of whether a business survived. With much of the world going into some form of lockdown, companies had to find new sources of revenue to replace the ones they had lost, employees had to start working from home and human interaction was largely replaced with virtual ones.

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8 Examples of Good Architectural Lighting Design

To strike a successful balance between lighting and architecture, it's important to know three key aspects of architecture lighting: aesthetic, function, and efficiency. Read to learn more about architecture lighting design and excellent examples of architecture lighting from around the world.

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Green Design Architecture - Fool's Dream or a Necessity?

Notions around green, sustainable architecture and design are widespread. However, due to the high standards set by green building rating and certification systems, some may say that implementation is difficult. Read on to learn more about green architecture and how it affects our everyday lives.

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Introduction to Architectural Lighting

Architectural lighting is basically the illumination for structural design and function. It is more deeply defined as an interaction between art (architecture) and technology (lighting). Its concepts may apply to both commercial and residential architecture. In the field of architectural lighting, other fields of expertise, such as design, will also come into play -- along with physics, engineering, as well as the physiological and psychological effects of light on a person’s mood.

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Combating Climate Change

"Green design" has many names: eco-design, earth-friendly, organic architecture, biomimicry, arcology, and so on. The collective goal is to strive for a sustainable future where nature is a part of the built environment.

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5G – The next quantum leap?

The term disruptive innovation comes up often within the Architecture industry, its driver being technological shifts and breakthroughs. The changes are not gradual nor incremental, but shift exponentially each time, changing the way we work and requiring different skillsets. But as promising as it sounds, speculation and over-hyped technologies may have oversold the notion. Processes in construction have not changed much in the last century.

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Shaping Experiences through Interior Design

There’s an ever-growing desire for natural light and space, and this is reflected through our material selection and inspirations. Our Landscape team holds a strong conviction that biophilic design not only augments health and wellness, but invigorates productivity in the workplace, and inspires calm in hospitality developments and homes. The global pandemic has emphasised the importance of mental and physical well-being, and the need to integrate these elements into a seamless design

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Future-forward Tools

In 2015, the United Nations created 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs for short) for the world to achieve by 2030. As we near the midpoint of this timeline, a raft of innovations are overdue – tools that bring about change and for the betterment of the world.. Here are a few that relate to the built environment.

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The Internet of Things

The best way to pave for disruption, is to be ready for the next technological leap. IoT, or the Internet of Things, is about extending the power of the Internet, onto processes and environments. With the hyper-connected 5G future incoming, armed with download speeds of 2.5 GB/S (gigabytes per second), information is collected and processed, allowing businesses and consumers to become more connected for better efficiency.

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The Power of Design

Civilization has advanced and progressed rapidly, growing from villages and towns to cities and states, and with it the size of the populations and communities that live and thrive within them. Today, the modern metropolis has given rise to modern society – communities that have grown and developed thanks to the benefit and utility that the power of design has enabled.

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Disruptive Innovation – A Modernist's Take on Evolution

Our high-tech era has taught industries to expect constant disruptive innovation. When companies fall behind expectations, consumers are quick to be judge, jury and executioner.

Insights

Cityscapes That Thrive: How Urban Form Influences Liveability

Designing cities for People

The Rise of Smart Asian Cities

Building the Ideal City: Key factors for Urban Living

Reimagining Cities

Realising Future Cities

Embracing Culture – The Role of Sacred Spaces

Empowering social interaction through urban design

Designing for Diversity and Inclusivity

Community-driven Conscious Design

Future-proofing Through Flexible design

Climate-Sensitive and Efficient Design

Harnessing AI in the Modelling of Built Spaces

Decarbonising the AEC Industry

Walking into the Future

Mitigating sea-level rise

Inclusive design for an ageing population

The Future of Transportation

Parks and Recreation

The Rise of Space as a Service

Building Green Farming Technology

Revolution Afoot for the Built Environment Industry

Integrated Digital Delivery (IDD) for the Built Environment

Post Pandemic Design: A Greater Focus on Wellness

Why Digitalisation Is The First Step In Evolving The Built Environment

Living With The Pandemic, What The New Normal Means For Architecture And Design

8 Examples of Good Architectural Lighting Design

Green Design Architecture - Fool's Dream or a Necessity?

Introduction to Architectural Lighting

Combating Climate Change

5G – The next quantum leap?

Shaping Experiences through Interior Design

Future-forward Tools

The Internet of Things

The Power of Design

Disruptive Innovation – A Modernist's Take on Evolution

5G – The next quantum leap?