25 January 2022, Tuesday 7pm
Parklane Shopping Mall, L8 Carpark

Organised and moderated by Zarch Collaboratives.
Held in conjunction with Liminal Matters Exhibition @liminalmatters,

‘Collaboratively Speaking’ returns with the aim of breaking bread amongst individuals within and adjacent to the architectural industry. Featuring a mix of artist practitioners, young architects and students, this edition’s panel will share their creative processes and preoccupations within their own practices, to provide fresh insight on architecture and beyond.

In this event hosted by Zarch, Wee Chwee Heng presented and discussed selected projects from a house to urban planning for Changi-Loyang DGP in the 50-year period of the iconic Kumpulan Akitek.

Mr Tan Cheng Siong -- Pioneer Architect who works include the iconic and presently contested Pearl Bank Apartments and Pandan Valley, shared his insights on the topics of Creative Conservation, Enbloc and Preservation. 

Mapping Frontiers angles the focus to the pertinent issues surrounding the environment and sustainability.

Show Suite’s seek to creatively examine the dialectic between real estate (re)development and the architectural imagination.

The literary imagination and urban planning are not natural bedfellows. Yet, our national planners can do well to think- at the least- metaphorically, even lyrically, as they attempt to balance the obligation to preserve the built heritage with the imperatives of “progress”.

The preservation of buildings serve as powerful reminders of a common past, a memory of where we came as a nation and a foundation from which we look to the future.

Singapore is in a constant state of dementia. For a relatively young city state, we have seen the demise of many architecturally and culturally significant national landmarks.