About the Author

SCDA Architects Pte Ltd is a multi-disciplinary architecture firm, established in 1995 and based in Singapore, that engages in the practice of architecture, interior, landscape and product design. SCDA's designs strive for tranquility and calmness qualified by space, light and structural order. Architectural expressions are distilled to capture the spiritual essense of "place". Its architecture and interiors are inspired by climate and cultural nuances of its context, integrating landscape, water features and blurring the distinction between interior and exterior. SCDA was awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects Worldwide Award in 2003 and 2012, and nine Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Awards. Soo K. Chan, the founding principal and design director of SCDA, was the recipient of the inaugural President's Design Award, Singapore Designer of the Year and is part of the Panel of Designers for Poliform in Milan. He was also awarded SIA-Getz Architecture Prize for Emergent Architecture in Asia and two RIBA International Prizes. He is currently working on three highly prestigious residential towers, including Soori High Line, which marks his third global Soori-branded work in addition to the award-winning Alila Villas Soori in Bali.