Who is the architect of esplanade singapore

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It also, incidentally, has one of the highest literacy rates in the world. Staples and his team spent considerable time studying and understanding the needs of the eastern arts, such as Chinese opera, Indian music and dance, and Indonesian and Malay performance. While the venues are still pretty much Western in design, there are characteristics peculiar to Asia.

The greatest difference between the two is that the East has no tradition of indoor theater. The Outdoor Theatre, which sits on the meter-long waterfront along Marina Bay, and The Edge, most suited for medium to large-scale performances.

There is also plenty of opportunity for people to meet, eat, drink and be entertained outdoors, including the open air Courtyard at Esplanade Mall. Internal venues also had to reflect Asian performance. TPC and Artec Consultants developed three main devices in the Concert Hall to create some of the most flexible acoustics in the world.

The hall is connected to huge reverberation chambers by 58 concrete doors that can be partially or fully opened in different configurations. He considers the Esplanade project as one of the most challenging jobs he has taken on. Although DP Architects won the project in a design ideas competition with Michael Wilford and Associates of London and started work on the project together, once the general set-up of the major elements were complete, the British firm withdrew from the project.

While the project was under construction, it elicited a lot of controversy because it looked peculiar compared to the average building. We had to ask: What prompted the spiky "durian" look?

Mr Gore explained that the triangular sunshades came about because he wanted to protect the building from the sun, yet allow lot of views outside. It also makes the building look different from different angles. For example, if one were to view it from the ground level of the Swissotel The Stamford, one would see nothing but glass because the sunshade edges are pointing at you.

But if one were to go up all the way to the top of the hotel and view the Esplanade, you see only the sunshades and no glass. As for the future, Mr Gore wants to retire at 60, vacation in Africa and Latin America and do some writing on what else, but architecture.