Lionel Leow
As an Architect, Lionel believes in human-centric design in which the user-experience, as a key generator, informs the design. Using this approach of walking through the user path, he aims to create delightful spaces that relate to different individuals – offering every user a uniquely memorable experience of the space.
Lionel graduated with Cum Laude for Master of Science (Architecture) from Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands in 2006. He started his career in global Architectural offices, i.e. DP architects in Singapore and Power Company in the Netherlands, before co-founding TA.LE ARCHITECTS with Yanling. He is a registered Architect with the Board of Architects in Singapore and The Netherlands.
Throughout his career, he worked on and completed numerous projects of varying typologies and scale in Asia, and in particular in Singapore. These projects includes the Singapore University of Technology and Design – the fourth university of Singapore which focus on sustainable design for the future, a 5-star hot-spring hotel (Crown Plaza) in Wenjiang, Chengdu, China, and Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City Masterplan – a future city planned and positioned as a unique vibrant and sustainable city that attracts talent and knowledge-based industries.
One of his more notable projects is Fraser’s Tower, a 38-storey office tower with a 3-storey retail podium along Cecil Street in Singapore’s Central Business District (CBD). Setting itself apart from other similar office buildings in Singapore, Fraser’s Tower provides lush greenery for the office workers with a terraced garden at the podium, a sky terrace at the 4th storey and a roof garden. Designed to be environmentally sustainable, the building was conferred the Green Mark Platinum certification, the highest ranking possible, by the Building Construction Authority (BCA) of Singapore.
Although the projects he worked on ranges in scale – from private owner house to a publicly accessible building – he remains focus on creating space that relates and enhance the individual user experience. He believes that well-designed spaces that brings delight to the user can positively influence social behavior and improves the lives of the community.
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