Rudolph’s design still stands today as The Concourse, a mixed-use development opposite Nicoll Highway MRT Station; while Pei’s work lives on in the OCBC Centre, Raffles City and The Gateway.
PLP’s Tina Qiu and Lee Polisano tell us more about their plans for The Clifford, working with Singapore Land and UOL Group, and how to design for Singapore’s tropical weather
Paul Rudolph and I.M. Pei — the generation of architects that came here in the 1960s, the 1970s and “even the mid-1980s” — got the idea of building for Singapore’s climate “completely right”, says Lee Polisano, the co-founder of PLP Architecture and president of the London-based commercial architecture firm.
