8th March 2021 is International Women’s day. This year’s theme is “Choose to challenge”. SPARK has chosen as all signatories of “Architects Declare” to focus on the challenges posed by climate change and bio-diversity. Directing the challenge is Liliani Saputri the new leader of SPARK’s Sustainabiity...
2020 was the 20th anniversary of SPARK working in Asia; and as we enter the Year of the Ox 2021 we are grateful to say that we are still able to bring SPARK’s borderless design brand supported by technological and ecological ingenuity to the city....
SPARK has built a reputation on the innovative transformation of buildings and has won many awards for its work including the transformation of Clarke Quay in Singapore and Starhill Gallery in Kuala Lumpur....
The social media is abuzz with amateur and professional photographyof recently completed ArteMK. A popular destination for fashionistas and social media influencers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for promotional photoshoots videos, the project has been used as a commercial backdrop for luggage label ‘Tumitravel’ and Wedding...
Transforming existing buildings and places is somewhat different than renovation in that it does not necessarily strive to maintain the social, political or cultural embodiment of the building or place. Transformation allows a sustainable update with a new concept for encounters, activities, programmes and meaningful...
Here are a few new images of SPARK’s studios: A snap shot in time, a poignant reflection of SPARK’s 2020. Our day to day environment from the serious to kitsch elements of our collective culture illustrated with a little “pop art” irony fashioned à la...
It is difficult for designers to evaluate and demonstrate the social impact and meaning of their work on people and communities. Methods of measurement are at best elusive tools but needless to say we collectively need to place increased emphasis on the creation of social...
The Shenzhen, Taizi Bay Office interiors designed by SPARK form part of China Merchant’s portfolio of mixed-used developments in the Greater Bay area (GBA). SPARK’s project is the first phase of a new generation of office interiors that lays the foundation for future of work,...
Since 2014, SPARK has been conducting at least one self-funded and self-initiated research project a year. The beginning of each of these research projects is not a client or design brief, but sincere observations of the various aspects of our lives. Be it social, environmental...
Our team will if selected develop a master plan that embraces plurality, a potpourri of structured design and commercial invention. A vision that brings science and research into being. Thamesmead will be born of a digital world fundamental to the ultimate delivery of a post Covid...