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Another Sultry Tropical Museum Piece from Singapore’s Guz Architects

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Guz Architects is one of our favourite architectural firms.

Their radical originality is tenderly wrapped within a vernacular architectural style that is extremely relaxed.

Somnolent, even.

Theirs is a civilized, bookish kind of colonial architecture that seems quintessentially Singaporean.

The originality and delight of this office space that appears to float in a street of water.

Yet it seems as if it is part of an ancient tradition.

So it is a humble style, despite its originality.

What is exhilarating about this house from Guz Architects, is the revolutionary, huge change in the usual indoors/outdoors dichotomy.

The sophistication of indoors furnishings in an essentially open air space.

Giant wooden pillars form a colonnade upstairs.

Their work is instantly recognisable.

The use of water and green roofs and a courtyard is familiar. In some ways it is reminiscent of another of their gorgeous tropical houses we’ve covered…

I love the glass edged pool. (What kind of strength is needed for glass to hold that much water!?)

Despite the glass edge, the overall impression is not a high tech feel.

Others of theirs we’ve covered include: Fish House Imagines Waves and Cluny House From Guz Architects and Lush Singapore Lawns Green the Meera House…

…but you can’t have too much of heaven.