Top Architecture Firms in Singapore: AMP Award Winners
April 2, 2025Updated: April 21, 2026
Singapore has established itself as one of the most architecturally ambitious cities in the world, combining density, sustainability, and design ambition at a scale few urban environments can match. The firms working here operate in a demanding context: tight sites, equatorial climate, high construction standards, and a public and institutional culture that expects architecture to do more than simply stand up.
This article covers seven architecture firms based in Singapore that have been recognised by the Architecture MasterPrize (AMP), one of the most respected international architecture programs, with entries from 72 countries in the 2025 edition. The list opens with Equator Works_, named AMP Architectural Firm of the Year for 2025, the program’s highest firm-level distinction.
Top Architecture Firms in Singapore
1. Equator Works_
AMP Architectural Firm of the Year 2025
Equator Works_, founded by Erik L’Heureux and based across Singapore and Melbourne, was named the AMP Architectural Firm of the Year for the 2025 edition, the program’s highest honour for a practice evaluated on its full body of work. The firm specialises in architecture for dense equatorial cities, using monolithic forms and calibrated surface treatments to address the specific demands of hot, humid urban environments.
Their work focuses on adaptive reuse, net-zero energy design, super-low embodied carbon, and broader decarbonisation strategies. In a field where sustainability often functions as an add-on, Equator Works_ treats climate responsiveness as the primary design driver. The Firm of the Year distinction, assessed by an international jury across design excellence, innovation, and expertise, recognises a practice whose approach to equatorial urbanism has few direct precedents.
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2. RSP Architects Planners & Engineers Pte Ltd
Best of Best, Institutional Architecture
RSP’s project GAIA, a six-storey Mass Engineered Timber building at Nanyang Technological University, received the Best of Best distinction in Institutional Architecture at the AMP. The building houses teaching spaces, a research centre, faculty offices, and an M&E ancillary block, with structural timber components prefabricated off-site and assembled on location. The approach significantly reduces construction time and embodied carbon, and GAIA functions as a working demonstration of what mass timber construction can deliver at institutional scale in the tropics.
3. CE-ST Design Studio
Winner in Commercial Architecture
CE-ST Design Studio’s Serrangel Art Pavilion in Foshan, China, is an adaptive reuse project that transforms an abandoned public rest shelter into a community art space. The facade uses recycled glass mosaics, and the design navigates strict refurbishment regulations while creating a functional and publicly accessible venue. The project is a compact demonstration of CE-ST’s approach to sustainable commercial architecture: working within tight constraints to produce spaces that generate community value.
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4. SAA Architects
Winner in Healthcare / Wellness
SAA Architects’ recognised project is the Hainan Bo’ao Lecheng International Healthcare Incubator Hub in China, which integrates medical research facilities with extensive green spaces. The building is designed around a therapeutic environment framework, positioning nature as a structural element of the healthcare experience rather than a decorative addition. SAA’s work here reflects an approach to healthcare architecture where landscape and clinical function are developed together from the outset.
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5. DP Architects Pte Ltd
Winner in Commercial Architecture
DP Architects’ transformation of 6 Battery Road in Singapore’s central business district renewed a low-rise podium into a mixed-use commercial destination. The patterned glass facade draws on the geometry of the Singapore River, and crystalline forms cascade across the building’s exterior and rooftop pavilions. The project demonstrates DP Architects’ facility with large-scale commercial work in a context where the relationship between new intervention and historic streetscape requires careful calibration.
6. Formwerkz Architects
Winner in Installations & Structures
Formwerkz Architects’ Twisted Paths is a hanging sculpture commissioned for Singapore Design Week 2019, installed in the atrium of the National Design Centre. The work is calibrated to complement the surrounding exhibition space without drawing attention away from the exhibits it accompanies, a discipline that demands a different kind of spatial intelligence than conventional building design. Formwerkz’s recognition in the Installations & Structures category reflects a practice comfortable operating across the boundary between architecture and spatial art.
7. SUTD Advanced Architecture Laboratory
Winner in Cultural Architecture
The Future of Us Pavilion at Gardens by the Bay, designed by the SUTD Advanced Architecture Laboratory, uses a detailed perforated skin to manage solar gain and airflow in an outdoor public environment. The pavilion served as a venue for community and cultural programming during its installation, combining environmental performance with public accessibility. SUTD’s work here represents the kind of research-driven design practice that Singapore’s academic institutions have increasingly brought into direct public engagement.
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Architecture in Singapore: What the AMP Winners Reflect
The firms above represent a cross-section of contemporary practice in Singapore: mass timber institutional construction, adaptive reuse, healthcare design, commercial transformation, and research-led experimentation. What connects them is a serious engagement with the specific conditions of building in the tropics, where climate performance, density, and sustainability are not optional considerations but fundamental constraints.
Singapore’s architectural ambition is increasingly reflected in the international recognition its firms receive. Equator Works_’s AMP Architectural Firm of the Year distinction for 2025 is the most recent marker of that standing, and the broader body of AMP-recognised work from firms based here confirms that Singapore architecture holds its own in a genuinely global field.
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