DP Architects is a Singapore architecture practice, founded in 1967 as Design Partnership by William Lim Siew Wai, Tay Kheng Soon and Koh Seow Chuan. It is best known at home for People's Park Complex and Golden Mile Complex, from the late 1960s and early 1970s; on a visit in 2005 Rem Koolhaas said of them, "These buildings were not intended to be landmarks, but became landmarks." Re-formed as DP Architects in 1975, the group now counts among the largest practices in the world, with 18 offices and more than 900 staff.
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Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay (2002), designed with Michael Wilford & Partners until that firm left the project in 1995, is two rounded space frames fitted with triangulated glass and sunshades, and is nicknamed "The Durian". The Singapore Flyer (2008), with Kisho Kurokawa's office, is a 165-metre observation wheel that was the tallest in the world when completed. The National Stadium, Singapore (2014), with Arup and AECOM, is covered by an 83-metre-high steel dome with a retractable roof and is naturally ventilated.
