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New Worlds to Order

Gaming Engines are allowing life-like (or less-so) worlds to be simulated in real-time. Where does this technology leave architects? With an expanded field of operation or a narrowed scope of actual buildings catering to tactile, aromatic and acoustic experience?

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Meet Our Directors

Fiona Nixon and Kristian van Schaik both graduated from RMIT University and spent nearly two decades working in Asia for leading architectural firms before merging their practices to create STUDIO NvS.

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Picture This

We recently happened upon the ever-growing online image collection at the M+ Pavilion of West Kowloon's under-development cultural precinct. What an incredible archive of the last 80 years of Asian architectural modernism.

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Resort Design Master Class

We’ve reached the halfway point in our semester at the National University of Singapore, and this week the students presented their work in progress to a distinguished panel of critics.

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Mastering Resort Design

STUDIO NvS Director Fiona Nixon continues her engagement with the NUS School of Architecture in 2020, this year running a master’s studio in luxury resort design titled ‘Grace, Peace and Place’.

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Radical Indigenism

Pedestrian bridges knotted from riverbank roots, fish-farm landscapes that filter urban wastewater and houses woven from dried reeds that can be relocated within a day. These examples and many inspiring others are uncovered in our recently-arrived copy of a new Taschen publication.

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Staying Sane

Singapore hotels are open for staycation business.

What do the Tourism Board's new guidelines tell us about future hospitality design?

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Illuminating Tibet

STUDIO NvS have recently been exploring projects in the mountainous west of China, but Kristian isn’t the only van Schaik fascinated by the region’s history and culture. Brother Sam is a world authority on the history of Tibet.

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Reflections on the Pool

The Venice Architecture Biennale 2020 is unsurprisingly postponed. Fiona Nixon was Architecture Australia Magazine’s official correspondent for the festival in 2016 and reviewed the installation at the then new Australian Pavilion…

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Classical Colours

Deep green galleries contrast creamy classical busts. But is it a whitewash?

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