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the new ethos : a book event after nearly fifteen years of quiet we finally decide on this day to come out of our little cave to launch our first… Read more: zlg4.0

the stonor is possibly the first ever open on the ground floor, fence-less and no boundary wall high density urban development in malaysia, this is as far as we can… Read more: the stonor

in today’s pandemic age and the era of the virtual and attention economy, it has become more urgent and more pertinent for us to go into publishing what has been… Read more: publication

the extension took about 15 months including design and contract documentation. the single biggest challenge was the roof detail which poses issues of drainage and corrosion from the very humid… Read more: boh visitor centre phase 2

we have now completed the long overdue renovation work on wangsa ukay – this is after nearly five years of construction – intermittent stopping due to lack of funds and… Read more: wangsa ukay completed

after nearly five years off the radar and not at all writing any part of the blog, we are now back and with new aspirations and updates on zlgdesign’s philosophical… Read more: back to boh: realigning and bracing for biophilia

last week we shared personal views on the issues surrounding todays practices generally, but more specifically on own accounts of projects undertaken by our practices whether conceptual or otherwise. the… Read more: sustainability : an academic standpoint and discourse

after the lantern hotel was completed earlier in 2015 the office embarked and reignited and returned to a 20 year old site in kuala lumpur, a smallish project in which… Read more: hotel jen : jalan sultan ismail

the more recent images of phoebe and terence ong house show the articulation of the pool and surrounding elements, whose design and location was intended to engage the garden more… Read more: phoebe house

probably the only project in which we preserve the least of any of its history, wangsa ukay will be the next work in progress (wip). underlying ken yeangs structure was… Read more: wangsa ukay : work in progress

lantern hotel is a 49-room facility whose designideas were really started about three years ago. we took a team of engineers and some architects and we arranged to meet with… Read more: lantern hotel 2015

phoebe (and ofcourse terence) house has just been completed now and has received certificate of fitness and so on, we spent time and again to help owner to place beautiful… Read more: phoebe house

belfield was done at a time we wanted to explore bricks for a large developemnt, primcipally high rise, medium density. the inspiration was frank lloyd wright, mies van der rohe… Read more: belfield: paradigm for high rise brickwork installations

we often receive land parcels whose potential would be to promote not luxury living but rather economic living. by the time we are done with the schematic designs the houses… Read more: wangsa ukay: how big must a house be

a new dilemma has beset all modern architects, the profession which proclaims sustainability of urban design is a fallacy, and the onus (and wrath) is upon us to prove otherwise… Read more: dilemma 2015

Just a little update here that on the 7.11.2014 at the One World hotel event, point92 MENARA OBYU has regained a new title, winner of Fiabci Malaysia office category award.… Read more: Point92 Malaysia FIABCI award

MACARANGA is Ecoworld first headquarters, these are offices and sales gallery conceived as an office work place opportunity that gave Zlgdesign an opportunity to introduce many low energy concepts, including… Read more: macaranga

The myriad changes to the town plan by far is a tremendous damage to the seafront, the urbane fabric and colonial architecture, much of which has seen renovations which do… Read more: trade wind city

Project point92 is significant in aspects of reducing impact and relative mass in the surrounding area. Unfortunately many neighbouring buildings already do not yet embrace this gesture, that is of… Read more: point92: phenomenology

With all due respect to architecture being mother of the arts and king of urban design, I would still argue the merit of urban designers and town and country planning… Read more: town planning : a necessary precedent

I’ve decided to post some records and historical or journalistic writing into a weblog zlgstory to benefit the design community whom are more interested to follow our psyche and ethos… Read more: zlgstory

Mixed development has it’s challenges. Commercially driven, high density, new urbanism, high costs of infrastructure and unnecessarily cumbersome marketing input and worst, mundane objectives and trivial agenda and software. Lengthy… Read more: briswood

duyong has been and will always remain a zlg interior project whose concept was derived directly on the premise of celebrating local craftsmanship. The boat building industry and talent of… Read more: duyong

The new lobby at ZLG offices in Sentul is a work inspired by libraries. In the back ground is a series of bottles and jars situated precariously on a steel… Read more: zlg office lobby

a much earlier scheme has the glass facades facing the north lights and the flank walls accommodate the circulation elements, very much in the vein of good tropical architectural approach.… Read more: resort in penang

Public realm in Asian countries fall behind their western counterpart partly because asian communities believe it or not were less independent of each other and partly economically each estate depend… Read more: the disappearance of public realms

the design brief for our architecture office The Challenge The brief was quite straightforward: how would we design a workplace that enhances quality of life experience whilst motivating workers to… Read more: a new paradigm for workplace

Our living room idea took off with a revised table top design and introduction of a raw food concept recently created by Elke Wollschon and her partner Carina Lipold. It… Read more: the living room

In meeting with John van Hage today I sense a direction for a book I am intending to write. Which in this instance the title was to be ” I… Read more: conversations with john van hage (on happiness)

our project x is here. We started to look at this 20 year old development recently to check on the restoration and refurbishment, currently in a state of flux. Intended… Read more: project x: plywood house

all of us here at zlgdesign would like to wish all our dear our friends, valued clients and colleagues a merry xmas and a happy new year 2013. We look… Read more: greetings

Point92 is an office building, whose facade is designed with two ideas in mind, one of which we place punched out windows and the other a series of random perforated… Read more: corbusien windows

Here are some recent images of the latest photographs taken of the marine plywood that we use for the lobby walls, the soffit for the arrival areas, and the outdoor… Read more: marine ply on buildings

We have now reached the final stages of completing point92. The lobby looks really good with 1188 marine plywood ceilings, some are randomly picked to offer naturalistic finish, not to… Read more: point92 is nearing final completion

Duyong was zlgdesign’s very first internationally acclaimed restaurant prepared for the monsoon cup annual event which takes place in malaysia in November. The aesthetics was based on a series of… Read more: a tradition is continued

The lantern is a 49-key budget hotel development in china town Kuala Lumpur. The building is a four storey dilapidated shophouse and an office block with a bank on the… Read more: lantern hotel takes shape

Excerpts from WAN 2007: The choice to use metalwork was based strictly on the need to reduce on site construction activities. ZLG Design contemplated to expedite erection of steel frames… Read more: boh published in world architecture news

All architects we suppose do a lot of resorts and so called hospitality homes, for us it runs from Oman to shanghai, but unfortunately, like it is for many architects.… Read more: resort apartments

In 2005 and thereafter we were in shanghai to renovate and recreate a residence for mr lee. The house has an enormous courtyard and a basement which totally lacked daylight.… Read more: shanghai revisited

We finally completed the renovation of our new offices. The image shows specialist worker putting in the resin floor and the white epoxy finish in the conference area. In stark… Read more: zlgdesign office taken shape

This is an early competition entry and model designed for Astro new administrative centre. It will house the new administrative functions and additional office space and covered parking for the… Read more: early astro competition model

Avenue k is now in its fifth year of renovation (at the time of this writing) and continuous upgrading, we are targeting not later than march 2013. The total retail… Read more: avenueK atrium undergoes major facelift

Typical poster flyer to announce some of our events and some ideas surrounding zlgdesign concept of engaging the public for more design awareness. Amongst the ones we know are happening… Read more: zlgevents

SNOHETTA has confirmed to come for a lecture in February 2013 next year, the event will be held at KLCC and the manager zlgevent will post more details on the… Read more: snohetta

Peter Cooks first lecture in Kuala Lumpur was organized by zlgevents and it went so well we had at least a hundred waiting outside the hall. The presentation was extraordinary,… Read more: peter cook first lecture in Kuala Lumpur

We took whatever clues we could get from the village where this building wa supposed to be erected. The Duyong restaurant was one of our earliest scheme which took cues… Read more: craftsmanship

This is an early image in 2005 of avenueK tower known as Kresidence. There are 19 different types of apartment layouts in this tower, each with views of the city… Read more: avenueK residential tower