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Oct. 15, 2022 / Gordon Price

Help Wanted: Urbanists in Singapore

This November, I’ll be fulfilling a desire I’ve add for many years: a visit to Singapore. I’m particularly interested in…
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Oct. 09, 2020 / Gordon Price

Urban Time-lapse: Lion City Rising

It’s been a long time since we had a good time-lapse of a city in transition – and this is…
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Jan. 29, 2020 / Gordon Price

East and West, Singapore and Burnaby

Last November, PT did a series on the development of Brentwood station area (Burnaby Builds a City, starting here) –…
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Mar. 05, 2019 / Gordon Price

What’s Satirical in Singapore: The BenZi Project

A brilliant piece of performance comedy from three guys – two of whom, Benjamin Kheng and Hirzi Zulkiflie, are the…
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Feb. 05, 2018 / Gordon Price

Lessons from the best public housing program in the world

From urbangateway: “But what about Singapore?” … having lived in the beautiful red-dot city state for two and half years,…
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Mar. 15, 2017 / Gordon Price

World's Best Bus Stop – 2

The post on the World’s Best Bus Stop in Singapore got a lot of interest.  You can actually see it…
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Mar. 13, 2017 / Gordon Price

World's Best Bus Stop

From CityLab: … thanks to DP Architects in collaboration with various agencies of the Singaporean government, there’s a bus stop…
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Jan. 10, 2016 / artitectus

Dead space for a living city.

I was watching an older SFU video last week on The Melbourne Experience. … and one of the most interesting…
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Jan. 07, 2016 / artitectus

Nanos gigantum humeris insidentes

  Vancouver is a young city. While this means we don’t have our own Arc de Triomphe (though some seem…
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Apr. 22, 2015 / Gordon Price

Urban Design in Singapore

Glen Chua sends this along: Thought some of your blog followers will find this four-episode documentary series interesting – . .…
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Apr. 17, 2015 / Gordon Price

Singapore: Life on the MRT

From Sandy James: . … photographer Edwin Koo’s latest project has a lot to say about Singapore. Transit, the 37-year-old…
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Jul. 23, 2014 / Gordon Price

Close Relations: Singapore and Vancouver

Jim Cheng took this shot of Interlace in Singapore: . . Ray Spaxman wonders: “Perhaps it is just a storage…
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Aug. 26, 2011 / Gordon Price

Singapore’s Sky Park: Architecture as Fantasy

Tom Durning sends along some pics of Sky Park, a mixed-use complex in Marina Bay, Singapore designed by Moshe Safdie…
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Apr. 05, 2011 / Gordon Price

Singapore Style

More treats from Ronald Chen, returning from a Singapore trip: I saw a very eye-catching residential development called “Reflections at…

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