Stephen Pimbley
Stephen Pimbley is a British architect[1] based in Singapore[2] and is the founding director of Spark, an architecture firm.[3]
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Pimbley began his undergraduate professional career at YRM in London, working on the North Terminal of Gatwick Airport. Upon graduating from the Royal College of Art London in 1984, he worked at Richard Rogers and Partners, designing the project installations for the Rogers room of the Rogers Foster Stirling exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1985.
In 1990, Pimbley joined Alsop and Lyall as project architect for the Hôtel du Département des Bouches-du-Rhône in Marseille. He was named director in 1994 and partner in 2000.[4] Following his time in Marseille, he worked in Hamburg, Berlin and Rotterdam. In 2000, Pimbley set up the practice's Asia studios and designed the Clarke Quay Redevelopment in Singapore.
Pimbley co-founded Spark in 2008. He led the design research at Spark focusing on social and environmental sustainability issues like recycling ocean plastics, floating hawker centres[5][6] and aged care living. He presented the project "Homefarm" at the "Future of Healthcare" talk at ExpoMilan, 2015,[7] FutureMe conference in Singapore, 2016,[8] "Housing Futures" Conference in Sydney, 2016[9] and at the Aging Well Conference[10] in Bangkok, 2017.[11][12] The Project Homefarm[13] won the Award for Future Experimental category at the World Architecture Festival in 2015.[14] Spark's "Beach hut" a Project focused on recycling ocean plastic[15] won the same category award at World Architecture Festival in 2016.[16]
Some of Pimbley's projects include Capitaland's Raffles City Beijing and Raffles city Ningbo,[17] Starhill Gallery,[18] Shekou Gateway One,[19] Arte S[20] and Guangzhou shipyard master plan.[21]
References
- "Stephen John Pimbley - Find architects, Search architects, Architects Registration Board". architects-register.org.uk. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
- "Stephen Pimbley - Architect Singapore / Singapore". Archilovers. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
- "Hello!". Spark Architects. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
- Glancey, Jonathan (29 October 2004). "Alsop Architects forced into receivership by financial crisis". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
- "Floating Hawker Centres Powered by the Sun. Is this the future?". INDESIGNLIVE SINGAPORE | Daily Connection to Architecture and Design. 17 July 2014. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
- "Design to whet appetites: Floating hawker centres". AsiaOne. 7 July 2014. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
- "HLM argues for landscape in healthcare | Landscape Institute". 5 January 2016. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
- Living Architecture, Engineering Sustainable Environments | Stephen Pimbley | FutureME, retrieved 16 May 2020
- "Housing Futures - 22.07.16 - Design Speaks. An Architecture Media Program". designspeaks.com.au. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
- Co.,Ltd, Zipevent. "Aging Well - The New Frontiers of Service Design | Zipevent - Inspiration Everywhere". Zipevent. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
- Building for Aging Well by Stephen Pimbley, director SPARK Architects, retrieved 16 May 2020
- "พร้อมหรือยังกับสังคมผู้สูงอายุ?". pptvhd36.com (in Thai). 8 September 2016. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
- "Spark's model for Asian retirement community". Dezeen. 17 November 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
- "2015 Category Winners". www.worldarchitecturefestival.com. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
- "SPARK designs solar-powered beach huts made from discarded ocean trash". 23 February 2016. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
- "2016 Category Winners". www.worldarchitecturefestival.com. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
- Seek, Ngee Huat; Sing, Tien Foo; Yu, Shi Ming (2016). Singapore's Real Estate: 50 Years of Transformation. World Scientific. ISBN 978-981-4689-27-4.
- "Starhill Gallery / Spark Architects". ArchDaily. 7 March 2013. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
- "Architect Stephen Pimbley describes... - Gallery - 6 | Trends". trendsideas.com. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
- "ARTE S / SPARK Architects". ArchDaily. 15 May 2018. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
- "SPARK completes Guangzhou Shipyard Master plan – aasarchitecture". Retrieved 16 May 2020.