Pleased to see @habitusliving featuring our End-lot house in Habitus #52 – the House of the Year Special issue. The project is nominated for House of the Year award.
End-lot House in Habitus House of the Year Issue
Desa Mahkota School featured in CSFA Review
Desa Mahkota School – one of our earliest built work – is featured in South Korea-based magazine CSFA REVIEW, Autumn 2021 No.06 edition published by CFSA (Creative Convergence Forum for School Architecture)
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View Desa Mahkota School on our portfolio page
Architectural Models in Context
Read about our Bamboo Playhouse Model in The V&A Blog:
Your submissions so far to Shaping Space – Architectural Models in Context • V&A Blog (vam.ac.uk)
Iconic Awards 2021 – Innovative Architecture by German Design Council
End-lot House has been awarded ‘winner’ of Iconic Awards 2021 – Innovative Architecture for the Single Family Home category.
ICONIC AWARDS: Innovative Architecture, established by the German Design Council, is the first independent international architecture and design competition to take into account the interplay between the various disciplines. Awards are given to visionary buildings, innovative products and sustainable communication in all sectors of architecture, the construction and real estate business and the manufacturing industries. The focus is on holistic production and interaction between the trades in the context of architecture
A Library for A Village
Kampung Endah Library: We have recently completed a library in a Malaysian west coast village called Kampung Endah with a population for 2000 people. The new library has been remodelled from an existing dilapidated structure. More details here.
Bamboo Micro-library Completed
On 19th September 2018, Director-General of UNESCO Audrey Azoulay named Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia as the World Book Capital for the year 2020. In conjunction with this, a series of micro-libraries were built all over the city. The Bamboo library located within the grounds of Perdana Botanical Gardens was designed by us as part of the initiative.
Our story is featured on ‘Self-made’
Rad about our story in ‘Self-Made: Creative Lives in Southeast Asia’ by Stephanie Peh – a book about ‘start-up stories of architects, artists, designers, photographers and filmmakers and how they navigate through terrains of uncertainty to pursue their dreams while keeping the lights on’.
Guest Lecture at GSAPP New York
Eleena has been invited to speak at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation on the 14th of October 2019 for its Fall 2019 Lecture Series.
Bamboo Book Kiosk Nearly Completed!
Here are the latest pictures of our mini library at Perdana Botanical Gardens Kuala Lumpur. Nearing completion, this little structure will serve as a free book kiosk built out of bamboo and colourful translucent polycarbonates. It is located right next to the bamboo playhouse and is conceived as part of Kuala Lumpur World Book Capital 2020 program.
Biophilic Architecture & Design Talk
Eleena talks about ‘sustainable building material: bamboo for mass housing’ in a webinar titled Biophilic Architecture and Design organised by Thinkcity & Gamuda on the 22nd May 2020. Together with Eleena speaking is LAr. Khariza Abdul Khalid COO of Gamuda Parks.