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OBELISK — international architecture studio headquartered in London with offices in Riyadh and Kuala Lumpur. Cultural buildings, residential, infrastructure, hospitality across the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, the wider Gulf, and Southeast Asia. Fifty-eight built projects across eighteen countries since 2008. Three Pritzker Prize nominations, the RIBA International Prize, and an Aga Khan shortlist.

OBELISK Architecture & Design — international studio working from London (headquarters), Riyadh, and Kuala Lumpur. Cultural buildings, residential, infrastructure, hospitality, interiors. Founded 2008 by Ramsay Whitcombe, Lamia Al-Rashid, and Mei-Ling Tan. Fifty-eight built projects across eighteen countries; three Pritzker nominations, the RIBA International Prize, and Aga Khan Award shortlist.
Architecture & Design

Architecture from London · Riyadh · Kuala Lumpur · since 2008

Working note · 001

"The section, the sun path, and the material are where a commission begins."

— OBELISK PRINCIPAL · LONDON

Selected Commissions

Built from drawings.

04 / 58 BUILT
Cultural Mass — a 4,200 square metre cultural building in Zürich's Manegg quarter by OBELISK Architecture, completed 2023. Three floors and a 12.5-metre cantilever in board-formed concrete. Front elevation: long horizontal beige-concrete mass, recessed central glass entry with bronze rim, reflecting pool in the foreground, flanking deciduous trees, golden hour light.
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DWG-002 · CULTURAL MASS · ZÜRICH · 2023 ESQUISSE → BUILT

Cultural · 2023

Cultural Mass

Zurich, Switzerland

12.5m cantilever
3 floors
4,200 m² gross
View Project
Cedar House — a 620 square metre cliffside residence in Lausanne, Switzerland by OBELISK Architecture, completed 2022. Single-storey cantilevered concrete roof slab (8-metre cantilever) over a sea cliff above Lac Léman, slender concrete columns, full-height glazing, infinity pool, twilight light.
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DWG-003 · CEDAR HOUSE · LAUSANNE · 2022 ESQUISSE → BUILT

Residential · 2022

Cedar House

Lausanne, Switzerland

8m cantilever
2 floors
620 m² gross
View Project
Vertex Tower — a 54-storey, 220-metre commercial tower in Singapore's Marina district by OBELISK Architecture, completed 2021. 62,000 square metres on a 44m × 44m square footprint. Composite concrete core, perimeter steel structure, structural-glass curtain wall, sky lobby at level 52. Photograph: ground-up perspective looking at two converging glass faces meeting at a vertical edge, sky and clouds reflected.
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DWG-004 · VERTEX TOWER · SINGAPORE · 2021 ESQUISSE → BUILT

Commercial · 2021

Vertex Tower

Singapore

220m height
54 floors
62,000 m² gross
View Project
Span Bridge — a 340-metre single-span pedestrian and light-rail suspension bridge by OBELISK Architecture, completed 2020. S355 weathering-steel Warren-truss girder deck, twin-tower cast-in-place concrete pylons, 22-metre navigation clearance, pier foundations driven to bedrock at −18m. Photograph: bridge crossing a mountain canyon with mist and a river below.
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Infrastructure · 2020

Span Bridge

Oslo, Norway

340m span
22m clearance
Grade S355
View Project

Studio Metrics

By the numbers.

SECTION B / B'
58
Built Projects
18
Countries
3
Pritzker Nominations
112
Studio Team

The Studio

Three rooms, one studio.

PLAN · STUDIO

A studio in three climates.

OBELISK works from London (headquarters), Riyadh, and Kuala Lumpur. The 112-person studio includes architects, engineers, designers, modelmakers, and writers, and has received three Pritzker nominations, the RIBA International Prize, and an Aga Khan Award shortlist.

The commissions are cultural buildings, residential, infrastructure, hospitality, and durable interiors across the United Kingdom, the Gulf, and Southeast Asia. A brief is tested first against light, section, material, and climate.

Founders
Ramsay Whitcombe
Principal · LDN
 
Lamia Al-Rashid
Principal · RUH
 
Mei-Ling Tan
Principal · KUL

Begin a Commission

Send the site
and the first question.

London (HQ)
78 Cromwell Place, SW7 2JEUnited Kingdom · GMT
Riyadh
KAFD Tower 11Saudi Arabia · AST
Kuala Lumpur
6 Persiaran KLCC, 18-02Malaysia · MYT
ESC