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Meet the Team behind Oasia Hotel Downtown

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Meet the Team behind Oasia Hotel Downtown

The second instalment of our series on sustainable design is a conversation with Phua Hong Wei, director at WOHA Architects

If you’ve been to Singapore in the last couple of years, you’ve probably spotted — or stayed at — the Oasia Hotel Downtown. Opened in mid-2016, in the midst of the Central Business District, the hotel boasts an eye-catching red facade and a vertiginous, creeping exterior of luscious green. Singapore-based architectural practice WOHA, renowned for its environmental and sustainable design practices, designed the building to embody its dedication to green urban design. WOHA’s Phua Hong Wei explains the inspiration for the hotel and its major design features in this short film by Danny Sierra.

Film / Danny Sierra
Cover Image / Patrick Bingham-Hall

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Oasia Hotel Downtown

With show-stopping exteriors designed by award-winning Singaporean firm WOHA and interiors by renowned Spanish design Patricia Urquiola, you know you’re in for a treat at Oasia Hotel Downtown, Singapore.

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Oasia Hotel Downtown
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In Conversation: Patrick Flores, Artistic Director of the Singapore Biennale 2019-2020

Earlier this year at the Singapore Biennale we sat down with artistic director Patrick Flores for an enlightening conversation about the role of biennales, the curatorial team’s vision for the 2019-2020 edition and questions of identity in relation to geography

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In Conversation: Patrick Flores, Artistic Director of the Singapore Biennale 2019-2020
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What is Singaporean Design?

Neat, organised and cosmopolitan, Singapore is a design-led nation. Here Mike Lim, principal of homegrown firm DP Design, weighs in on what the term ‘Singaporean design’ means to him

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What is Singaporean Design?