Sheer Industries was one of many startups that were invited to participate in the opening event of the Global Entrepreneurship Week Singapore 2011. The event was hosted for the fourth consecutive year by ACE (Action Community for Entrepreneurship) and supported by Spring Singapore. Companies who received funding through the Young Entrepreneurs Scheme for Startups (YES! [...]
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Global Entrepreneurship Week 2011
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National University of Singapore, Department of Architecture Open Studio sessions
As one of the fringe events listed under the ongoing Archifest 2011, the department of architecture from the National University of Singapore held their open studio sessions on the 21st and 28th of October from 2-4pm on each of the Fridays. From the outset, it was a cosier version of an open house or orientation [...]
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Hub to Hub
Sheer Industries walked along a stretch of roads from Bras Basah to Bugis last week to have a live view of Hub-to-Hub, a fringe event that was part of Archifest 2011 that showcased 7 temporary installations – works of collaboration between architects, designers and professionals from other disciplines. The exhibition was organized by ReallyArchitecture and [...]
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Future Tropical Living Today
As we said we would, Sheer visited the Exhibition of Broadway Maylan’s project which is the Idea House – Southeast Asia’s first carbon zero prototype residence. The international design practice also launched a book entitled Future Tropical Living Today, written by one of their directors, Prof Jason Pomeroy, an award winning architect and academic at [...]
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Exhibitions @ URA
Sheer Industries made a trip down to URA – Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore and we had a look around at the many ongoing mini exhibitions that were held in conjunction with Archifest 2011. One of them is CUBE, which stands for Challenge for the Urban and Built Environment. It is an annual competition organized [...]
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Urban Sketchers Volume 01: Singapore
As we all know, October is the month of the ongoing Archifest with its end in sight which is tomorrow, 28th October 2011. This post features some of the fringe events that were happening as part of Archifest 2011 and many of these events were held at URA – Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore. Although [...]
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Sheer Industries Group in the news
Sheer Industries Group made it to the Business Times on the 20th of October 2011. Attached are Co-founders, Shawn and myself. We are sincerely appreciative of journalist Victoria Ho’s excellent work who wrote a great story profiling us as a local startup company. We will continue to work hard to complete our current project – [...]
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Future Memory Pavilion 2011
The Future Memory Pavilion is a joint effort by Singapore and the UK to build a captivating structure as part of the ongoing Archifest 2011 exhibition. It is organized by the British Council Singapore in partnership with the London Royal Academy of Arts and Preservation of Monuments Board and involves architects, engineers and curators. This [...]
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Archifest 2011, 3rd to 28th October
Archifest 2011 is an annual exhibition that showcases many architectural creations and concepts by industry professionals in and around Singapore. It is a collaboration of sizable magnitude and is co-organized by a variety of architectural firms, media partners, magazines and publications and government agencies. The theme of this year’s exhibition is Common Spaces, so named [...]
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Piero Lissoni Furniture Launch 30th September 2011
On the 30th of September, Sheer Industries Group headed down to Dream Interiors, a luxury provider of interior furnishings for the launch of Piero Lissoni’s new line of furniture. His stopover in Singapore was the last leg of his Asia Tour that began in Shanghai . Called Pallet, the new indoor/outdoor furniture range is his [...]
