CMPB Wins at Architecture MasterPrize 2026 Under Institutional Architecture

DP Architects’ Central Manpower Base (CMPB) has been recognised as one of four winners in the Institutional Architecture category at the Architecture MasterPrize (AMP) 2026,an annual international architecture award that advances appreciation and exposure of quality architectural design worldwide and recognises creativity and innovation across architecture, interior design, landscape architecture and related disciplines.

Designed by DP Architects and its architecture-related specialist arms — DP Design, DP Façade, DP Green, DP Lighting and DP Sustainable Design, CMPB reimagines Singapore’s National Service gateway as a human-centred, sustainable architecture of service, where individual journeys meet collective identity.

Rather than an inward-looking military facility, CMPB is planned as an open civic campus. Its three zones, Play, Live and Work, rise along a ceremonial stairway, with courtyards, daylit halls and shared landscapes, fostering a calm and ordered environment for users, balancing accessibility with security while reinforcing a clear spatial hierarchy and sense of identity. The campus takes its cues from Singapore’s modernist and tropical architecture. Vertical concrete fins and deep eaves shade the interiors while keeping the building visually open, and the Beacon façade, made of ninety prefabricated concrete panels and interlocking bricks, forms the State Crest. CMPB is certified Green Mark Platinum – Super Low Energy, with 47% overall energy savings.

This award follows a run of recent recognitions for CMPB, including the BCA Awards 2026 (Design and Engineering Safety Award, Institutional), Fire Safety Design Award, Excellence Award and Architizer A+ Awards (Popular Choice Winner under Government and Civic Buildings, and Special Mention under Sustainable Institutional Building). The recognition reflects the practice’s approach to public architecture throughdesign that is purposeful, people-centred and built to last.