Highlights
Award-winning architect who led Pinnacle@Duxton project to join SUTD as full-time professor
From January 1, he will be a professor of practice and head of the architecture and sustainable design pillar at the university.
Turning vacant houses into investments: A young architect's journey to Japan
After earning his master’s degree in architecture five years ago, SUTD alumnus Goh Jun Yang moved to Japan to advance his career. He views architecture as a discipline that extends beyond buildings, incorporating urban planning and societal impact.

Award-winning architect to join SUTD as new Head of Pillar
Mr Khoo Peng Beng, who is known for transformational work like the Pinnacle@Duxton, will join the Singapore University of Technology and Design as Head of the Architecture and Sustainable Design (ASD) Pillar on 1 January 2025.

Partnering with AI to create a wellness tourism experience
SUTD student Janessa Kwan wins third prize in the first “Reimagine The Future of Hospitality with AI” competition.

SingHealth signs MOU with two universities to develop white paper on population health
Singapore Health Services Group collaborates with the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) to develop a white paper on population health to help seniors improve their quality of life and maintain physical and mental health.


Blooming flower-inspired Hanabii pacifier wins 2024 Kyoto Global Design Award
Marrying aesthetics and function, Hanabii is shaped like a flower (Hana = “flower” in Japanese) and expands open like a firework (Hanabi = “firework” in Japanese) when used by a child.


‘AI Sampling Singapore’ project wins Architectural Design – Speculative and Visionary award at BLT Built Design Awards 2024
The project, by Assistant Professor Immanuel Koh, explores the design agency of deep generative neural networks in learning architectural notions of three-dimensional exteriority and interiority with a redesigned 3D generative adversarial network (3D-GAN) architecture.


More than a quarter of SUTD faculty ranked top 2% of world’s best scientists for 2023
The prestigious list, as compiled by Stanford University, is based on the bibliometric information in the Scopus database and includes more than 220,000 researchers from across the globe, classified into 22 scientific fields and 174 subfields.

‘I might have to close in a few years’: Singapore’s ‘mamak shops’ could soon disappear
Growing economic pressures aside, experts said that the changing architecture of HDB estates is another reason why mamak shops might soon be a thing of the past.

Sustainable Design Option Studio 1 Trip – In-Between Katong
The Sustainable Design Option Studio under ASD’s undergraduate programme explores the multi-dimensional issues of sustainable design through a variety of lenses and at diverse temporal and spatial scales. Issues of resource efficiency, resilience, material and typological innovation, micro-climatic and site affordances, life-cycles and metabolism, and many other critical issues will serve as the projective context in which students will develop critical design solutions for small, medium and large scale architectures and urban interventions.
