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04/09/2023

The Singapore Food Agency (SFA)’s exhibition titled “Feeding our Future: Building an Agri-Food Hub for all”, was launched by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Mr Lawrence Wong on 02 September 2023. A key highlight of the exhibition is the vision for Lim Chu Kang (LCK) as Singapore’s flagship agri-food production hub of the future.

MKPL Architects Pte Ltd, together with Henning Larsen, Ramboll, Sobono, KuiperCompagnons, Priva, WSP and AECOM are extremely proud and honoured to be given the opportunity to work with SFA on this LCK master plan, envisioning its transformative blueprint to safeguard Singapore’s food future. The project is of national significance as it will be contributing to Singapore’s ‘30 by 30’ vision, which aims to build the agri-food industry’s capability and capacity to sustainably produce 30 per cent of Singapore’s nutritional needs by 2030.

Our multi-disciplinary team’s concept master plan addresses key challenges of Singapore’s limited land resource for agriculture and aquaculture with careful consideration for the ecological sensitivities of the site. The master plan proposes innovative farming typologies and technologies which would achieve the food production goals whilst incorporating the natural character of Lim Chu Kang. The concept includes holistic ecosystems to enable sustainable, productive agri-food production, a framework for circular resourcing and opportunities for businesses and agri-food workers.

Team Members
Lead Consultant and Architect: MKPL Architects
Urban Planner and Landscape Design: Henning Larsen Henning Larsen
Transport Planner: Ramboll Ramboll
Civil & Structural Engineering: Ramboll
Environment and Biodiversity: Ramboll
Flood Resilience and Coastal Protection: Ramboll
Mechanical & Electrical Engineering: WSP
Quantity Surveying: Aecom Cost Consulting and Project Management Singapore AECOM
Agri-food Cluster Planner: Kuipercompagnons B.V
Food Technology and Bio-security: Priva B.V Priva
Waste Management, Circularity and Sustainable Energy: Sobono Sobono Group

04/09/2019

MKPL is listed in BOA's Top 15 Architecture Firms in Singapore! 🇸🇬

03 Sept 2019 BOA Top 15 Architectural Firms 2019 boa-top-15-architecture-firms-2019.pdf

03/09/2019

! We rewind and take a look back at our , each led by inspiring Architects who took center stage to stimulate creativity amongst our community of makers and thinkers in the industry. Our architects took us through topics touching on the themes of ecosystem, materiality and typology. Read on below:

January
“Beyond the Green and the Blue” - Jia Xin Chum, Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl

Jia Xin shared her experiences on where green and blue infrastructures play a prominent role in increasing the liveability of a city, inspiring audiences to take on a new perspective at ‘Living with Nature’.

February
“Biophilic Liminality” - Kee Jing Zhi, Founding Partner and Design Director of Freight Architects

Jing Zhi explored on the notion of Liminality locally, by creating a Biophilic environment for a pre-school centre in Sengkang Riverside Park, Singapore.

March
“SMU-X - creating a new DNA to the site and its context” - John McLaughlin, Director of MKPL Architects Pte Ltd

John shared his exciting and insightful experience of designing the -X, a new development integrating the natural and urbanised environment, that will surely inspire other architects in time to come.

April
“Creating joyful spaces” - Toh Minghui and Eugene Aw, Laud Architects

The duo touched on the topic of the creation of joyful spaces, of which LAUD architects strives to implement in their architectural conquests.

May
“Sense and sensibility in architecture” - Ko Shiou Hee, Founding Architects of K2LD Architects

From the importance of staying curious, to the craft of Issey Miyake’s creations on the runway; Mr Ko Shiou Hee shared on the intensive process of beauty and how it stems from creating and refining ideas.

June
"Creating meaning in architecture" Wong Zi Xin, Park+Associate Pte. Ltd

Zi Xin laced her presentation with compelling accounts of her experience in this industry and beyond, sharing how she found meaning in architecture.

July
“Work, live, life, play” - Razvan Ghilic-Micu, Associate at HASSELL

In our fast-changing world, Razvan discussed the four key factors that will underpin successful developments as designers and architects face this new paradigm.

August
“Always question if there are better ways to do things, seeking new ways to test conventions and improve on space and design.” Zhong Yi, Partner & Architect at asolidplan, delivered an inspiring presentation on the theme of .

Stay tuned on this page as we reveal more information on our next TAB talk in September, featuring Theodore from CIAP Architects!

20/07/2019

The SMU Prinsep Street Residences won an honourable mention at the 2019 Singapore Institute of Architects Design Awards. Congratulations to the team!

19/03/2019

“SMU-X - creating a new DNA to the site and its context”

In a highly urbanised city as Singapore, infrastructures and its surrounding environment are often mutually exclusive.

In this month’s TAB, speaker John McLaughlin, Director of MKPL Architects Pte Ltd, will take us through his design experiences, in particular that of SMU-X, a new addition to the Singapore Management University (SMU) campus that integrates various distinctive urban spaces to improve connectivity and bring out the relationship between the campus, city and adjacent greenery.

John, who joined MKPL Architects in 2001, spent the last 22 years based in Singapore and has been involved in the design and creation of award winning residential and institutional developments of various scales. His dedication and commitment to design excellence through his hands on approach to architecture has resulted in his success in the craft of detailing and simultaneous creation of highly live-able environments.

Please join us on March 27th at 7pm at Cosentino City Center Singapore for the third installation in the TAB series, the last in this quarter’s ECOSYSTEM theme! Be sure to RSVP at: [email protected] or through Peatix: https://peatix.com/event/621968/view

16/03/2019

A good friend Irene Mehta captured this photo of the SMU Kwa Geok Choo Law Library at Fort canning last night. “MK/PL - walk past tonight... it was so beautiful, had to take a pic!”
“My pal n I got a bit lost becos of road block n asked some students to let us into the bldg. it was fab inside no we kept commenting how lucky the students were to hv study in the lovely bldg... 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻to both of u”

Thank you Irene.

22/01/2019

Singapore Management University School of Law won a commendation in the 2018 Learning Environments Australasia Award. Read about it.

The Macquarie University Incubator has been declared the overall winner of Learning Environments Australasia’s 11th Annual Excellence in Educational Facilities Awards. The Awards ceremony in Sydney was the culmination of Learning Environments Australasia’s (LEA) 18th annual conference on innovat...