BUILDING & INVESTMENT - September - October 2015

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The internet is creating a level-playing field for publishers both big and small. We are finding an increasing number ofreaders going to our website to view or dowload our digital edition. We know that the internet is an eective digital newsstand and with this platform, our magazine can reach out to a wider audience across the globe. If you wish to keep updated with industry news and information but cannot get hold of our print edition, do visit our website to download our digital version. is latest issue of our magazine is special as we count down to the World Architecture Festival (WAF) and we are dedicating a special section to the event. We are proud to be associated with the prestigious global event as one of the media partners and a limited number of our magazine will be distributed during the three-day event in Singapore. Incidentally, one of our supporters and advertisers, AkzoNobel, is also the title sponsor for WAF and we are fortunate to have had the opportunity to catch up with Jeremy Rowe (p20), AkzoNobel Decorative Paints’ managing director. In this issue, we also present you with AkzoNobel’s recommended colours for 2016 (p19), which they call ColourFutures and this might be of interest to architects, designers and even consumers who need to choose colours for their interiors. Also in this issue we bring you highlights on several interesting projects like the award-winning D’Twist (p6), a new township in the making called De Centrum City (p10), and Alice Smith School (p14) which won an architectural award recently. In our Design Feature section, we bring you architectural and design ideas from around the world like Cedrus Residence (p62), Espace eatre (p64), Saul-Bellow Library (p66), NOIR Centre (p68) and Issadesign’s new oce (p70) in downtown Montréal, Canada. Meanwhile, if you have suggestions to oer or events that you would like us to cover, please drop us a note.