DPA, DPD and DPG Celebrate Wins at Golden Pin Design Award 2025 |
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Under the Spatial Design category at the Golden Pin Design Award 2025, Bukit Canberra, Life Hub @ Bund Central, The Standard, Singapore, Odeon 331, Singapore Airlines Perth SilverKris Lounge and Punggol Green have been recognised as Mark Winners, with Punggol Green also accorded the Special Annual Awards in Social Design at the award ceremony held on 5th December 2025 in Taiwan. With three projects by DP Architects, two from DP Design and one from DP Green, these recognitions underline the design practice’s multidisciplinary expertise and commitment to design excellence.
As the recipient of the Special Annual Awards in Social Design as well as a Mark Winner, Punggol Green by DP Green transforms an underutilised area beneath an MRT viaduct and successfully reframes a disamenity into a vibrant social spine that caters to diverse needs while promoting ecological connectivity. Addressing the residents’ need for an inclusive and safe outdoor space for relaxation, play and social interactions, the project also aligns with the Singapore Green Plan by bringing nature closer to the community. Fostering everyday wellbeing in a secure environment, it marks another step towards the nation’s vision of a “City in Nature”. Shaped through extensive community engagement, Punggol Green serves as a prototype for future city-making strategies, demonstrating the possibility of reimagined spaces that enrich urban life.
Other projects by DP Architects recognised as Mark Winners of the Golden Pin Design Award include Bukit Canberra, a large-scale integrated lifestyle hub designed to meet the growing needs of Sembawang’s expanding population. Incorporating a wide range of healthcare, sports, recreational and lifestyle programmes within a single, walkable environment, the design is guided by regenerative design principles that allow the preservation of the site’s naturally hilly terrain and rich forest character. The architecture offers a unique take on its relationship with nature by adopting hexagonal grids, a strategy inspired by biomimicry, in its massing. This has enabled the building to respond flexibly to the site’s natural topography and existing trees. Contextually grounded, Bukit Canberra proposes a new paradigm of community architecture where regeneration, climate resilience and inclusive design converge.
Located in Shanghai, Life Hub @ Bund Central is a mixed-use complex comprising retail and office functions. A key component in the area’s urban regeneration, the development foregrounds the merging of heritage and modernity, connected with the surrounding cultural clusters through a system of activated plazas, alleyways and elevated public spaces that reveal and reframe the relationships between programmatic adjacencies. Expressed as an iconic urban development along a major southern traffic thoroughfare, the building is composed of large, interlocking volumes, responding to the view towards The Bund, with textured grey-toned striations reflecting historical masonry construction. The interplay between indoor and outdoor spaces subverts the conventional retail concepts, weaving public and social spaces from the surrounding Heritage Zone to the newly built areas. The resulting building reflects a sensitivity to history and scale through carefully crafted urban interfaces.
Inspired by the American billboard, The Standard, Singapore, offers itself as a bold statement in the hospitality scene—aptly reflecting the brand’s quirky and unorthodox nature. First opened in West Hollywood, The Standard brand cultivated a casual, celebrity-studded ambience, which is mirrored in the hotel’s design. Together with DP Façade, DP Green and DP Engineers, the design of The Standard, Singapore features a lenticular façade that is static yet expressive, beckoning visitors into its alternative interpretation of pop-biophilia. With a sunken pool-bar check-in leading the eye towards a series of lushly landscaped, stepped sinkhole-shaped platforms, this expression carves out hidden spaces, inviting guests and visitors to explore the diverse offerings of the hotel.
Odeon 331 and Singapore Airlines Perth SilverKris Lounge by DP Design were also recognised at this year’s award. Reframing the lobby at Odeon Towers into a warm, open urban park that invites people to pause, gather and connect, the redesign of the space—realised in Odeon 331—challenges the conventional concept of a typical, enclosed lobby. The design seamlessly blurs boundaries between indoors and outdoors, extending nature into a shared, vibrant urban node that connects with its surroundings through enhanced visibility and accessibility. A central landscaped zone anchors its placemaking strategy, promoting collaboration and community. Adopting passive design strategies, such as strategic placement of ceiling fans and seating areas, the space fosters a comfortable environment for users’ experience. Together with the retention of original structures that minimised embodied carbon and construction waste, Odeon 331 offers itself as a sustainable, inclusive urban connector that supports wellbeing, social engagement and environmental responsibility.
Beyond Singapore, Singapore Airlines Perth SilverKris Lounge by DP Design embodies a ‘home away from home’, creating a seamless transition between Singapore and overseas lounges. The design fuses Perth’s local elements, textures and natural materials with Singapore Airlines’ iconic features, including the batik motif and signature furniture pieces. With an open concept, the lounge accommodates both public and private spaces through adaptable, inclusive zones that cater to a diverse range of needs for resting, dining and work. Addressing higher occupancy and post-pandemic requirements, additional space and enhanced facilities have been incorporated into the design. The design of Singapore Airlines Perth SilverKris Lounge meaningfully embodies the concept of cultural fusion, positioning it as a transitional space between borders while providing a unique experience that embraces accessibility and inclusivity.