Huat Lim

For some strange reason this building fails to read as a 23 storey development. The scale is so extraordinary for us. Very high density and completely huge, this textile centre is due to start construction later this year. The ground breaking ceremony is due end of May 2008.

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This is our latest exploration for a tower for commercial property in KL. We hope to take this to an iconic level, there's also some intent to make this a totally sustainable project, with energy central to our thinking...moveable blades of timber...three dimensional volumes of office space to encourage interaction between floors etc...

Huat LIM
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This detailed image of BOH has the mark of a very Miesian building but built entirely with great conscience to safe the environment from damageous activities as falling trees, with that we see how close the building stood up against very old trees without much problem.

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The BOH Vsitor Centre has now been accorded the 2007 Barbara Cappochin Foundation Award Special Prize for Detailed Architecture and Construction Elements. The event is taking place October this year in Padua, with that a Memory Sculpture will be also presented, by artist Pino Castagna. We are indeed honoured.

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Detail of the new sales office we are doing right now for a textile centre in downtown Kuala Lumpur. Set to complete in about two years from now, the Textile Centre is one of its kind in Malaysia.

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Just another relook at retail design, a wall paper treatment for one side of the void, and the other side I'd make a walkway/passage, at the ends a set of escalators or maybe lifts...

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This fisherman's boat inspired me to do this sketch for a 'duyong' restaurant [now built and ready] in the east coast of Malaysia...the craftsmanship is quite amazing, and these men [fishermen] they are so much into their art, they fail to see how beautiful their work is, and what they do! I really love the way the wood runs into each other to form that very delicate shape a boat is..We were inspired by the local village fishermen’s boat building art, partly because of the way they work with the wood, and partly because of the extraordinary precision found inside the curved forms of the boat ribs. We wanted the restaurant to reconnect to and communicate something from the region, so that the design has elements belonging very much to the genius loci of the village, not something I could simply pluck from the air; I didn’t want anything to just suddenly come out of the woods..H

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These are my most recent images of the shopping mall in kuala lumpur we just completed...the interior is supposedly museum like , unlike most malls...I did think shopping malls ought to look great, and that we should not feel intimidated by the overwhelming myriad of stuff and goods, etc. One can also have lots of space for cultural and artisitc "additions"--why can't we have artwork and nice graphics in an environment that we might spend loads of time in. Sure, we all know that there's returns and revenue to work with...but with some effort malls with good design I think attracts people too. See also avenueK by zlgdesign.

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