About

Archigardener Designs

Archigardener is a digitally-native multidisciplinary design consultancy based in the Asia Pacific region and currently headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. Founder Jonathan Choe is a Singapore-registered architect & designer with over a decade of experience designing intrinsically sustainable projects of various typologies and scales across Asia & Australia.

Read more about the services that we provide and see our portfolio of works. For further information on collaborations, please contact us at designs@archigardener.com.

Archigardener Blog

The Archigardener Blog (formerly urbanARCHnow.com) was founded by Jonathan Choe in 2010 as a means to share projects, thoughts & travels while studying architecture in Chicago & Paris, working in Singapore, and travelling to almost 50 countries across the world. While working for over a decade as an architect, it has grown into one of Singapore’s most popular design websites with tens of thousands of monthly pageviews.

The blog has now evolved into a platform for some of my own work and thoughts on the intersection of architecture & urbanism with skyrise greenery. Media enquiries can be directed to admin@archigardener.com.

Founder Jonathan Choe

Archigardener was founded by Jonathan Choe. Born in the United States, Jonathan studied architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago & Paris, and has more than a decade of experience designing sustainable architectural projects of many types and scales as an Associate at WOHA Architects in Singapore.

To get in contact, follow or direct message me at @archigardener.

Been on the road for a month and still fight that urge twice a day 😅 The #DenderaTemple complex was built along the during the Ptolemaic Dynasty, between 305 BCE and 30 BCE. It’s one of the most intact ancient temples in Egypt, but like most of the surviving archaic structures, most of the ancient Egyptian gods were defaced or destroyed by crusaders or local Christians during subsequent periods. Unlike many ancient Egyptian sites, where long-lost vibrant colors have been brazenly repainted by UNESCO, the artisans’ tombs at Deir al-Medina, a remarkably preserved 3,000-year-old village of skilled workers who built the pharaonic tombs, feature truly original frescoes, protected by their deep burial in arid desert conditions. The last 4 photos show the Deir al-Medina temple, where colours have been problematically reapplied to original bas-relief carvings. Soaring above ancient Egypt’s treasures on a #HotAirBalloon ride in #Luxor, drifting over the Valley of the Kings & Queens, the majestic Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut, and the colossal statues of Memnon. Should have done a bit more research but I’m officially obsessed, already scheming to do my next #HotAirBaloon ride! Have you tried any good ones, preferably with better safety records 😅. The stark, almost minimal, colonnade-fronted terraces and dramatic ramped processional entrance of the #MortuaryTemple of Hatshepsut always stood out to me, but even more impactful in person is the dramatic setting among the craggy limestone landscape and the stunning carved and decorative works (pictured last). From what I’ve seen here, we were more civilised 3,500 years ago 😅😂🥲 Visited Luxor temple at dusk and it was amazing! Feels like I’m wandering around in my art & architecture history textbooks from archi school!