Two architects from a Singapore-based company have won a biennial regional award for their creative designs. Wong Mun Summ and Richard Hassell from WOHA Architects clinched the SIA-Getz Architecture Prize. It is presented by the Singapore Institute of Architecture (SIA) and supported by The Getz Group, a marketing and services company that also supplies building materials. It is the second time a...
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THE public first got wind of the ambitious vision last August, when Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong spoke of giving the 56-year-old Dawson Estate a new face. Now, the surgeons who will design its new face have been appointed, and flats could go on sale by next year. Construction is expected to start six months after the sale and the new generation of flats would be ready by around 2014, said Ms Grace Fu,...
Two award-winning private architects have been officially appointed by the Housing and Development Board (HDB) on Wednesday to put a new spin to the old Dawson Estate in Queenstown. SCDA Architects Pte Ltd and WOHA Architects Pte Ltd were earlier commissioned to draw up plans for two separate public housing sites at the junction of Margaret Drive and Dawson Road. The new flats will be launched for sale...