“We were drawn to Lui and Wong through their sensitivity to proportion, material and light. There’s a quiet confidence in their work – a kind of restrained poetry,” commented Dr Tan, who was especially struck by the couple’s creation of a comforting, textured clinic, accented with their signature interplay of geometric shapes and fluid lines.
She elaborated: “Their design was refined yet deeply human. The soft curves – like the human face and body – sculpted volumes, thoughtful flow transformed a clinic space into something emotive and cocooning. The patients often describe the space as a ‘retreat’, which is rare for a medical facility.”
The doctor went on to engage the pair to design her second clinic. This year, she tasked them for a third project – her own home. The 3,500-sq-ft, three-storey house with a basement in the Bukit Timah area is part of a stretch of identical houses designed in a faux-Spanish style with terracotta-tiled roofs and white walls.
