In 1992, he joined the Singapore branch of P&T Group, one of Asia’s oldest architectural practices. Over nearly 20 years, he grew with the firm as it expanded across the Middle East, Southeast Asia and China.
It was his love of drawing that led architect Lim Chai Boon to apply for an architectural technician diploma at Singapore Polytechnic in the early 1980s. Instead, he was offered a place in a marine radio officer course.
“I was rejected,” he says, amused at the memory. “But I was given a reserved seat that someone had given up [two weeks later]. So that’s how it started.”
Lim went on to top his class at the polytechnic. He continued his studies at the National University of Singapore and later completed a master’s degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US.
