UOL Group's 1 Moulmein Rise has won the prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture.Designed by local firm WOHA, 1 Moulmein Rise was recognised as a creative response to high-rise housing in the tropics.
In the citation, the design was also hailed as avoiding 'the kind of market-approved cliched response that the client usually expects the architect to develop'.
Built on a 25,000 sq ft site and completed in 2003, 1 Moulmein Rise has 50 apartments in a 27-storey block near Novena MRT Station.
It tackles the challenges of the tropical climate by reinterpreting the traditional monsoon window and relating spatial volumes to maximise air circulation.
The judging panel said traditional balconies respond to the needs of everyday life and were used 'ingeniously' on the building's facade.
Expressing delight at the award, UOL's chief operating officer Liam Wee Sin said: 'We will aspire to continue to place Singapore's architecture firmly on the global map.'
WOHA's founding director Wong Mun Summ, a former member of the Urban Redevelopment Authority board, said: 'The monsoon window facade was based on a traditional South-east Asian device - the architecture of the past still has relevance to our time.'
The Aga Khan Award comes with a cash prize that totals US$500,000, apportioned among recipients.
Previous winning designs include the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur.
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