Our Story
Established in 2006, AR43 Architects is an award-winning design firm known for its diverse portfolio, including commercial, hospitality, institutional, luxury residential, and interior architecture projects across Asia. Led by founder Lim Cheng Kooi, who brings over 30 years of experience, the firm has earned numerous accolades, with many of its works featured in leading architectural journals.
AR43 Architects is distinguished by its commitment to the built environment and its understanding of architecture’s transformative power, both physically and emotionally. The firm’s designs emphasise simplicity, using fundamental compositional and geometric elements without adhering to a fixed style. Each project is a unique synthesis of site and program, exploring various architectural interpretations while delivering extraordinary results within ordinary budgets.
Our Team
The firm is organised as a collaborative group of diverse talents. Our best designs occur when individuals come together, challenging each other for new exciting ideas, reinvent techniques and search for new expressions. Each project is a new platform to advance the overall practice, while achieving a very particular set of individual goals. In our firm, passionate young designers and architects work alongside the most experienced hands, blending wisdom with fresh inspiration.