Sustainable Luxury

[ Sustainable Luxury ] presents 27 recent residential projects created by Singapore's most talented architects to address the many complex and interconnected aspects of sustainability, offering insight into Singapore's contemporary domestic high-end architecture and how it represents that vibrant city and its ethnically diverse inhabitants. -- Publishers Weekly McGillick proposes an expanded framework of sustainability that addresses not only environmental concerns but economic and social factors as well. Sustainable Luxury curates a selection of recent residential architecture in Singapore that fit within this framework. The projects can be broadly categorized into conservation houses, strata residences, and single landed dwellings. Without going into specifics, these are exceptional architectural work from the offices of architectural doyens such as Richard Ho, Yip Yuen Hong and Mok Wei Wei, as well as the newer generation of architects such as Randy Chan and Chang Yong Ter. --d+a (design and architecture) magazine Much like in his previous book, Dr McGillick's latest offering features houses that turn the common notion of sustainability on its head, beyond just looking at green features. [...] The 224-page hardcover book is filled with stylish pictures of the exteriors and interiors of the homes, taken by Singapore-based award-winning photographer Masano Kawana, who specialises in architecture, interior and food photography. --The Straits Times McGillick examines a stunning selection of Singapore's contemporary domestic high-end architecture and how it represents that vibrant city and its ethnically diverse inhabitants. [...] McGillick's unusually extensive descriptions accompanying Kawana's evocative photos offers insightful context that will help North American readers understand, and maybe envy the affluence, vitality, and East-West mingling reflected in these homes. --Publishers Weekly -Much like in his previous book, Dr McGillick's latest offering features houses that turn the common notion of sustainability on its head, beyond just looking at green features. [...] The 224-page hardcover book is filled with stylish pictures of the exteriors and interiors of the homes, taken by Singapore-based award-winning photographer Masano Kawana, who specialises in architecture, interior and food photography.- --The Straits Times -McGillick proposes an expanded framework of sustainability that addresses not only environmental concerns but economic and social factors as well. Sustainable Luxury curates a selection of recent residential architecture in Singapore that fit within this framework. The projects can be broadly categorized into conservation houses, strata residences, and single landed dwellings. Without going into specifics, these are exceptional architectural work from the offices of architectural doyens such as Richard Ho, Yip Yuen Hong and Mok Wei Wei, as well as the newer generation of architects such as Randy Chan and Chang Yong Ter.- --d+a (design and architecture) magazine -McGillick examines a stunning selection of Singapore's contemporary domestic high-end architecture and how it represents that vibrant city and its ethnically diverse inhabitants. [...] McGillick's unusually extensive descriptions accompanying Kawana's evocative photos offers insightful context that will help North American readers understand, and maybe envy the affluence, vitality, and East-West mingling reflected in these homes.- --Publishers Weekly