“When I was in school we learned about Golden Mile Complex, and how the pioneer architects designed it. It was truly one of a kind in its time,” says Howard Wee, founder of 7 Interior Architecture. “The terraced, stepped-back, brutalist language of the building is a nice departure from the uniformity that we always see. I think that’s what architecture should be, it should make a statement,” continues Wee, who was awarded Best Architectural Concept at the Tatler Homes Design Awards 2023.
Completed in 1973 and designed by local architects Tay Kheng Soon, Gan Eng Oon, and William Lim of DP Architects, Golden Mile Complex has grown to become one of Singapore’s most iconic architectural landmarks over the years. Once praised by the famed Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas as a masterpiece of experimental architecture and urbanism, Golden Mile Complex has been gazetted as a conserved…
