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Kampung Admiralty, a housing complex designed for senior citizens in Singapore, has taken home this year’s World Building of the Year award at Amsterdam-based World Architecture Festival (WAF). It becomes Singapore’s third project since 2009 to win this honor; previous recipients were an extension to National Museum and The Interlace by OMA/German architect Ole Scheeren.
Prince William of Britain was met by fans in Singapore like never before as he made his green carpet walk at the third annual Earthshot prize awards ceremony. Hundreds of supporters held up homemade signs and waved flags and photos of Princess Diana as he entered Jewel Changi Airport. At Jewel Changi Airport he was met by hundreds holding homemade signs, waving Union Jack flags, waving Union Jack flags and photos. Prince William noted at Jewel Changi Airport how the solutions unveiled at this year’s Earthshot awards showed “there remains hope despite current global climate crises”.
Singapore Literature Prize 2019 winners were revealed this week, and five writers were shortlisted in multiple categories. Clara Chow was named winner in English creative nonfiction and fiction as well as Readers’ Favourite English book award – she became the first writer ever in SLP history to achieve this. Additionally, Clara also won Chinese Poetry category and Readers’ Favourite English poetry book award this year; additionally rma cureess was honored with Readers’ Favourite Tamil book award; she’s only winner was both Tamil fiction AND Readers’ Favourite Tamil book awards this year!
In 2021, the NUS Singapore History Prize was launched to foster interest and understanding of Singaporean history and its place within global affairs. This year’s winner, Leluhur: Singapore Kampong Gelam by Sharlene Wen-Ning Teo and Hidayah Hidayat demonstrated this by being described by judges as an elegantly written and well-researched book that explored its subject’s past – not necessarily professional historians’ stories but nonetheless important nonetheless.
Singapore’s annual literary awards recognise outstanding works published by Singaporeans across its four official languages, this year with a theme of resonance to highlight how books can elicit emotions and memories in readers. Each winner of 12 categories received S$3,000 cash as well as a hand-crafted trophy and 12-month gift code to audiobook platform StoryTel; over 4,000 voters cast ballots to determine this year’s winners which were revealed during an awards ceremony this month.