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Event talk on the future of residential renovation, where Metre Architects shares perspectives on sustainable materials, spatial innovation, and evolving expectations of contemporary homes.

Chinese daily Lianhe Zaobao profiles Runway, a penthouse apartment whose interiors echo the dynamism of airport runways through bold lines, layered lighting, and cinematic views.

Architizer includes Metre Architects in its list of Singapore’s leading architecture and design firms, recognising the studio’s concept-led residential work and inventive responses to compact living.

Design Milk names Vessel among its top interior design stories of 2024, highlighting the project’s ship-like loft volume and clever small-space planning as a benchmark for contemporary apartment design.

A video home tour by Design Anthology that steps inside Runway, a family penthouse shaped by aviation-inspired geometry, sweeping circulation lines, and a refined, gallery-like material palette.

Uchify showcases Vessel as a Japandi-inspired loft home office, where warm wood, clean lines, and a floating mezzanine transform a compact 2-room condo into a serene live–work retreat.

Project profile of S[]L[] House on Architizer, focusing on how a semi-detached home is reworked with sculpted volumes, layered sightlines, and a restrained palette for contemporary family living.

Never Too Small presents Vessel, spotlighting the ship-like timber loft that sails through the apartment to create storage, workspace, and an elevated sleeping zone within a modest condo footprint.

Address features Inward Nature, a semi-detached house in Sin Ming that embraces a nature-inspired palette, soft daylight, and inward-looking courtyards to create a calm urban sanctuary.

Lookbox Living explores Runway, examining how a strong axial spine, tiered ceiling lines, and rhythmic lighting create the sensation of walking along a runway within a family home.

Design Milk examines Vessel as a case study in micro-living, showing how a carefully detailed loft and built-in storage can make a tiny Singapore apartment feel open, layered, and highly functional.

Lianhe Zaobao covers Anchored Planes, an apartment defined by simple lines and floating planes that frame circulation, carve out intimate corners, and keep the home feeling light and fluid.

An in-depth interview with founder Woon Chung Yen, discussing Metre Architects’ design philosophy, approach to compact residential projects, and the narratives that underpin each interior.

Pendulum Magazine visits Inward Nature, a tranquil home where layered textures, filtered daylight, and nuanced material contrasts turn everyday movement into a slow, contemplative spatial journey.

Feature on An Ample House that traces how soft minimalism, generous openings, and gentle curves support a spacious yet understated family home in dense urban Singapore.

Kvadrat documents Round Sun, Long River, an acoustic and lighting installation that anchors a dining space with textile-clad circular forms, enriching the home’s material depth and acoustic comfort.

Lianhe Zaobao highlights Subliminal Corridor, a multi-functional home where layered corridors and shifting sightlines subtly delineate zones without sacrificing openness.

Design Anthology tours Subliminal Corridor, revealing how overlapping planes, flexible joinery, and nuanced lighting create a home that adapts to both work and family life for its owner.

Design Milk recognises Gradient Space as one of its standout interior projects of 2022, applauding the apartment’s cascading built-in furniture and flexible use of vertical space.

Design Milk takes a closer look at Gradient Space, demonstrating how a compact 462 sq ft apartment can integrate sleeping, working, dining, and storage into a single sculptural intervention.

Never Too Small showcases Gradient Space as a multifunctional studio where a tiered timber structure weaves together bed, desk, seating, and storage to unlock surprising generosity in a tiny plan.

Lianhe Zaobao profiles An Ample House, focusing on its calm material palette, airy rooms, and measured minimalism tailored for family living.

Leibal presents An Ample House as a study in quiet luxury, with softly curved walls, pale timber, and delicate detailing that create an atmosphere of gentle, expansive calm.

Lianhe Zaobao covers Widescreen, a residence where long panoramic vistas, framed thresholds, and considered lighting evoke the drama of a cinematic stage within domestic space.

Feature on Converging Space, highlighting how angled planes and converging axes bring structure, intimacy, and depth to a compact apartment layout.

Yanko Design reports on Gradient Space’s adaptive furniture system, in which layered timber platforms transform from bed to seating to storage, making a tiny apartment feel unexpectedly generous.

Treehugger looks at Gradient Space as a sustainable, space-saving intervention, describing its cascading built-ins as a sculptural way to reduce clutter and increase functionality in a micro-home.

Lianhe Zaobao writes about Meandering Light, a home where a sinuous lighting path and carefully carved openings choreograph movement and softly illuminate everyday rituals.

AIT Magazine features To Gather, examining how a central, sculpted furniture piece brings family, dining, and work functions together in a single, social core.

A live discussion with 99.co that unpacks design strategies for compact homes, using projects like Gradient Space and Vessel to illustrate how small apartments can feel open and adaptable.

CNA Lifestyle tours To Gather, showing how a challenging HDB layout with a curved wall is transformed through a unifying built-in island that organises circulation, storage, and shared family activities.

CNA Lifestyle explores Gradient Space, focusing on the out-of-the-box tiered structure that stacks sleeping, lounging, and working functions within a modest studio apartment.

An awards feature on Spatial Corners, highlighting how carved pockets, articulated edges, and built-in seating create rich spatial variety within a compact home.

The Peak profiles An Ample House as a minimalist yet warm family home, where restrained lines and carefully edited details set the tone for quiet sophistication.

The Business Times revisits An Ample House, emphasising how pared-back forms, natural materials, and considered proportions deliver a sense of ease and understated luxury.

Home & Décor features To Gather, focusing on its central island that redefines the modern living space by merging cooking, dining, and socialising into one continuous gesture.

The Business Times profiles architect Woon Chung Yen, tracing how influences from East and West inform a design language that is both disciplined and quietly expressive.

The Business Times profiles architect Woon Chung Yen, tracing how influences from East and West inform a design language that is both disciplined and quietly expressive.

Lianhe Zaobao covers To Gather, describing how a sculptural dining and activity island becomes the heart of the home, encouraging everyday interaction and shared rituals.

Feature on Gradient Space in Lianhe Zaobao, focusing on how layered platforms and multifunctional carpentry support modern small-space living in a Bukit Panjang apartment.

Leibal showcases To Gather as a finely crafted interior where one sculptural element anchors the home, blurring the boundaries between kitchen, dining, and living.

The Singapore Architect’s Issue 16 presents Gradient Space within the context of the Singapore Institute of Architects Design Awards, highlighting its inventive response to micro-apartment living.

Event listing and talk that delve into the design philosophies behind award-winning projects such as Gradient Space, with Metre Architects sharing detailed insights and design intent.

Issue 13 of The Singapore Architect discusses small-space architecture, featuring Gradient Space as a key example of how compact homes can still feel layered, generous, and highly liveable.

Lookbox Living revisits Gradient Space, explaining how its multi-level built-in furniture enables a tiny studio to feel expansive, versatile, and finely tailored to its occupants.