Highlights

A win-win approach to designing cities for cars and pedestrians
SUTD researchers have developed a generative urban model that upends the notion that walkable neighbourhoods must come at the expense of road access, offering a new way to balance mobility and liveability.


Bukit Timah Railway Station project wins another accolade at the Tatler Homes Design Awards 2025
Awarded “Sustainability Champions: Best Conservation” at the Awards, the project receives another accolade to its impressive list of awards.


Singapore Celebrates 60 Years of Independence with an Enticing Multisensory Pavilion ‘RASA-TABULA-SINGAPURA’ at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025
The Singapore Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 invites visitors to take a seat at the Table of Superdiversity—an enticing reimagination of city-making and nation-building through the universal act of dining.


Professor Chua Chee Kai named 2024 Highly Ranked Scholar (Lifetime) by ScholarGPS
SUTD President Professor Phoon Kok Kwang, as well as Prof Tony Quek (Head of ISTD), Prof Yang Hui Ying (EPD), Assoc Prof Soujanya Poria (ISTD), and Assistant Prof Xiong Zehui (ISTD), are also named Highly Ranked Scholar based on prior five-year activity.


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.


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.


World Cities Summit Young Leaders 2024
SUTD is proud to announce that six individuals from SUTD have been selected as the 2024 World Cities Summit Young Leaders. The Young Leaders are selected from a large number of invited nominations made by senior leaders from public, private and academic sectors.


SUTD Breaks New Ground With New Design Accredited Degrees
Every single SUTD graduate from our undergraduate degree programmes is now recognised as being “design-trained”. This marks the first time all degrees in a university worldwide have been design accredited.
