Soaring Marble Walls

The design of this penthouse apartment was guided by one main concept. LYNN TAN finds out how the whole scheme came together to reinforce this central idea.

- Lynn Tan

WHO LIVES HERE

A couple with two teenage children

HOME A four-bedroom penthouse apartment in Sembawang

SIZE 2,300 sq ft

When business owners John and Janet purchased the old penthouse apartment, they recognised the need for a major overhaul and trawled the Internet for a credible designer who could live up to the task. Lim Ai Tiong (LATO) Architects/ Design’s portfolio caught their attention.

“It was reassuring that Ai Tiong is an architect, so he would be able to handle a project involving lofts and double volumes,” says the couple, whose brief called for three bedrooms – a master for them and a bedroom each for their teenage son and daughter.

They also needed a proper area for working from home days. And, more importantly, they wanted Ai Tiong to make sense of the existing layout while looking into how to better express the double-volume spaces within the two-story unit.