Singapore

With its tropical climate, Singapore is well-suited to greenery-covered architecture and Serie Architects and Multiply Architects' lush Oasis Terraces is a worthwhile addition to the city-state. It provides locals with a versatile mixed-use space containing a community center and health clinics.

Singapore's Kampung Admiralty has won the 2018 World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival. Designed by WOHA, it meets the needs of elderly people in a safe and green environment.

​German aviation startup Volocopter is one of the more active players in the nascent flying taxi scene. It is continuing to spread its wings, today announcing plans to set up shop in Singapore and kick off test flights next year.

A Singaporean company is resurrecting a post-WW2 German design to commercialize a beautiful reverse-delta ground effect vehicle as a high-speed, high-efficiency ferry for 6-8 passengers. The Airfish 8 hovers serenely between 2 and 23 feet over the water and hits speeds of almost 120 mph.

When the elevator is out, firefighters could find themselves having to carry heavy equipment up many flights of stairs. Such a scenario has prompted Trigen Automotive to develop Auberon, a mechanical exoskeleton designed to take the strain out of carrying emergency equipment up to tower-top fires.​

The first Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner has been delivered to Singapore Airlines. The latest and largest of the Dreamliner family was handed over to its new owner in a ceremony at Boeing's North Charleston, South Carolina assembly facility attended by 3,000 people.

Italy's Carlo Ratti Associates (CRA) and Danish firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) have collaborated on an interesting new skyscraper currently under construction in Singapore. Rising to 280 m (918 ft) the building will be jam-packed with greenery, and feature trees jutting out of its facade.

Vanda Electrics has delivered on last year's promise, revealing its extraordinary Dendrobium electric supercar in Geneva. And while it’s taken a step back from the space-age concept renders and astronomical performance figures we were given a year ago, it’s still a super-exotic looking machine.

Self-driving cars and drones need to be able to quickly take in their surroundings even in extreme road conditions and bad weather, but conventional optical cameras aren't quite up to the job. Researchers have now developed a camera that detects changes in a scene at nanosecond intervals.

Commercial drone networks need some structure, so Nanyang Technological University is developing an air traffic control system for drones in Singaporean airspace, exploring ideas like geofencing, designated flight lanes and ground stations that track all airborne UAVs.

What is thought to be the world's first public trial of a self-driving taxi service has begun in Singapore, pipping Uber and Volvo to the post. For the trial, a group of the city-state's residents can use a ride-hailing smartphone app to book free taxi journeys in one of the firm's autonomous cars.

Delphi and Singapore's Land Transport Authority have joined the likes of Greenwich and Beverly Hills in developing an on-demand autonomous self-driving system to carry commuters the “last mile” home.