SPARK Architects’ Taizhou Fish Market wins the Iconic Award 2025 for Concept – Urban Planning & Landscape. The project transforms a historic fish market into a vibrant waterfront hub integrating trade, culture, and community engagement. Now under construction, it highlights innovative urban architecture and design-led public spaces.

SPARK’s Suzhou Qingtai International Industrial Design Village has been awarded Gold in Category 3 at the 9th Singapore Institute of Planners Planning Awards 2025. Presented at the Gala Dinner in September 2025, this recognition celebrates SPARK’s commitment to creating sustainable, people-centered urban environments through innovative planning and design.

Bush Stop reimagines the everyday bus shelter as more than a place to wait — it becomes a living piece of urban infrastructure that cools, cleans, and connects. Designed by SPARK Architects with partners Cundall and Nature Landscapes, the prototype demonstrates how small-scale interventions can deliver outsized impact for climate resilience and community well-being. With sustainable construction, native planting, and community-focused features, Bush Stop is a quiet provocation that asks us to see cities differently, as places where even the simplest structures can spark civic imagination and nurture a more resilient urban future.

Architecture, at its best, is a social act.

Some of our most meaningful projects weren’t born from briefs or awards, but from questions. Questions about food waste, sanitation, aging, and ecological loss—issues that sit outside conventional client demands but are central to how we live together.

From SPARK’s playful Big Arse Toilet and BARE (Bio-Anaerobic-Rubbish-Eater), to the cautionary 3 Little Pigs, the intergenerational model of HomeFarm, and the youth-driven Beach Hut, each project is modest in scale but ambitious in spirit. They explore how design can provoke, educate, and create public joy while addressing urgent social and environmental challenges.

We share them not as finished answers, but as open provocations and reminders that the smallest projects often pose the biggest questions.

SPARK Architects is proud to win the Iconic Award 2025 in the Concept – Urban Planning & Landscape category for the Taizhou Fish Market project. This visionary masterplan reimagines the waterfront as a vibrant hub that blends commerce, community, and sustainability, setting a new benchmark for innovative urban design and resilient landscapes.

SPARK Architects BARE (Bio-Anaerobic-Rubbish-Eater) tackles global food waste by transforming discarded food into clean energy and fertiliser. Designed as a bear-shaped civic icon, it blends sustainability, public art, and education—making waste management visible, engaging, and future-focused.

SPARK Architects’ Bush Stop is a sustainable, human-centric prototype for Singapore’s public infrastructure. Integrating green design, social innovation, and future-focused architecture, it reimagines bus stops as vibrant community spaces, supporting climate resilience, biodiversity, and sustainable urban living.

SPARK’s Beach Hut is an award-winning sustainable architecture project in Singapore, built from recycled ocean plastics and inspired by Casuarina seedpods. This future-focused design transforms waste into possibility, promoting climate action, material reuse, and environmental responsibility in innovative coastal architecture.

Solar Orchid by SPARK Architects is a visionary, solar-powered floating hawker centre that redefines Singapore’s public infrastructure. Combining sustainability, climate resilience, and social innovation, it offers a human-centric, adaptable dining experience that reconnects the city with its waterscapes. A future-focused architectural prototype promoting sustainable urban living and cultural heritage.

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