Ko Shiou Hee is the founding principal of K2LD Architects, the design practice behind award-winning projects such as the Golden Box, the Winged House, the Forest Study, Singapore Wine Vault and Christ Methodist Church. Founded in 2000, and currently based in Singapore and Melbourne, K2LD revels in creating a distinctive aesthetic for each project that leaves a highly original mark on the architectural landscape.

Prior to K2LD, Ko worked at Architects 61 as design team lead, and was involved in various local and regional developments in countries such as Vietnam, Indonesia and China. His projects included Harbourfront MRT station, Bishan Community Club, and Tampines Plaza I & II. The graduate of Rice University had also worked in the US for Morphosis, Kohn Pederson & Fox, and IM Pei. The recipient of the Williams Will Watkins Traveling Fellowship also did a two-year stint in Tokyo as a design consultant before returning to Singapore.

K2LD is notably working with Japanese architect Kengo Kuma & Associates on the Founders’ Memorial, a structure which honours the pioneering Singapore leaders key to the country’s nation-building journey. The blueprint encompasses an organic form that “rises out of the landscape” to play up Singapore’s international standing as a “City in a Garden”.