For this special trade edition, designed to coincide with the DP50 exhibition at the URA Centre, Singapore, in August, DP Architects: 50 Years Since 1967 offers a holistic insight into the firm’s unique story and technique. It provides readers with a curated selection of some of DPA’s most renowned projects, including The Dubai Mall, Esplanade— Theatres on the Bay, Sunray Headquarters, the Singapore University of Technology and Design with UNStudio, the Singapore Sports Hub and Resorts World Sentosa, as well as current projects, including the Sengkang Hospital. In addition to a generous feature of built projects, DP Architects: 50 Years Since 1967 contains exclusive interviews with DPA’s principals, including founder Koh Seow Chuan. Throughout this celebratory publication, leading voices share their experiences and wisdom in spirit of collaborative design across a multitude of typologies, scales and locations. From early on, DPA earned a reputation for producing environmentally conscious buildings with a joie de vivre inherent to their user-oriented design values and colourful palette. A half-century later, with 17 offices operating worldwide and 1,300 employees currently in service, DPA remains true to its founding vision of maintaining an excellence in design that improves the quality of life for a public engaged with its planning and architectural works.
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DP Architects practices as a multidisciplinary design group, One Global Studio, with 1,200 staff, 16 strategically linked international offices from Shanghai to London, 8 associated specialist companies, with a reach of 77 countries around the world.As the practice of architecture becomes broader and more encompassing, DP recognises the potential of specialisation in our pursuit of a holistic design solution.Our design work benefits from the close collaboration and synergy among the various disciplines to strengthen our delivery of fully coordinated, context-appropriate and innovative design solutions. Our headquarters in Singapore houses the specialist companies and 10 typology research teams that perform as a consolidated resource for our designers around the world. With the diversified talents and extensive specialist knowledge, our interdisciplinary approach is driven by a common design belief and methodology.Founded in 1967 on a deep concern for the built environment and the need to create architecture of excellence that enriches the human experience and spirit, DP continues to play a role in shaping cityscapes in Singapore, Asia, the Middle East and beyond. Driven by a strong philosophy devoted to human activity and civic quality of the city, our designers approach each project as the continuation of an ongoing exploration in shaping the public domain. In our pursuit to improve the lives of people in cities, DP explores design techniques that inject new vitality into the city’s fabric. Our projects serve as regional focal points, hubs of human activity and social space.
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