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EDITOR’SNOTE
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This latest issue of our magazine is special as we count down to the World
Architecture Festival (WAF) and we are dedicating a special section to the
event. We are proud to be associated with the prestigious global event as one of
the media partners and a limited number of our magazine will be distributed
during the three-day event in Singapore.
Incidentally, one of our supporters and advertisers, AkzoNobel, is also the
title sponsor for WAF and we are fortunate to have had the opportunity to catch
up with Jeremy Rowe (p20), AkzoNobel Decorative Paints’ managing director.
In this issue, we also present you with AkzoNobel’s recommended colours
for 2016 (p19), which they call ColourFutures and this might be of interest
to architects, designers and even consumers who need to choose colours for
their interiors.
Also in this issue we bring you highlights on several interesting projects
like the award-winning D’Twist (p6), a new township in the making called De
Centrum City (p10), and Alice Smith School (p14) which won an architectural
award recently.
In our Design Feature section, we bring you architectural and design ideas
from around the world like Cedrus Residence (p62), Espace Theatre (p64),
Saul-Bellow Library (p66), NOIR Centre (p68) and Issadesign’s new office
(p70) in downtown Montréal, Canada.
Meanwhile, if you have suggestions to offer or events that you would like
us to cover, please drop us a note.
ERIC TAN, EDITOR
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