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IMAGINE living in a neighbourhood that generates its own electricity, where public areas have 24-hour camera surveillance and residents are encouraged to get around by electric car-sharing services provided by the township.

WHAT do hospitals of the future look like? Drawing from his experience of designing the award-winning Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH) in Yishun, Singapore, Jerry Ong, senior vice-president of architecture of the healthcare division at Singapore-based CPG Consultants, envisions hospitals as “centres of wellness for everyone” instead of “repair shops to treat sick patients”.

TECHNOLOGY, low birth rates and an aging population are among the trends that will disrupt or affect the property development industry in the future, according to Varangkana Artkarasatapon, vice-president of business development and new business (high-rise) of Sansiri Public Company Ltd (Thailand) — one of Thailand’s most prominent luxury property developers.

TA Global Bhd, as its name suggests, has a global presence as a property developer with projects in various countries including Malaysia, Australia and Canada.

WHEN thinking about architectural design and ecosystems of the future, Japanese architect Paul Tange and his colleagues at Tange Associates constantly challenge themselves with this question —“How do we create a comfortable environment for people?” Even though technology, particularly green technology, has advanced greatly, more often than not, individual technologies or systems are isolated and are not connected to one another, Tange notes.

AS many as four interactive polls were conducted during the Future Forward event to find out what the participants’ views were on several topics.

TECHNOLOGY may change the way we work and communicate, but human beings still want that personal touch that only another fellow human being can give.

SIGNS of globalisation are everywhere — from the cars we drive to the shared experience of hunting for virtual monsters on Pokemon Go.

LOCATION and convenience may be a top priority for property buyers as they shop for a new home, but value is key to the future of the property market.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 5): Potentially higher Employees Provident Fund (EPF) withdrawal for homebuyers will not see significant impact on the property sector given that there are already various financing schemes from the government to address the challenge of homebuyers in purchasing their first homes, according to AllianceDBS research.