Q&A with architect and director of Llewelyn Davies Yeang, Ken Yeang

Chongqing Tower

Chongqing Tower, China

(Image credit: T.R. Hamzah Yeang Sdn.Bhd)

The Building

Fusionopolis, Singapore

(Image credit: T.R. Hamzah Yeang Sdn.Bhd.)

The Waterfront

Dubai Waterfront, Crescent Islands, Dubai

(Image credit: Llewelyn Davies Yeang)

EDITT Tower

EDITT Tower, Singapore

(Image credit: T.R. Hamzah Yeang Sdn.Bhd)

IBM Headquarters

Menara Mesiniaga – IBM Headquarters, Malaysia

(Image credit: T.R. Hamzah Yeang Sdn.Bhd)

Street Hospital

Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK

(Image credit: Llewelyn Davies Yeang)

Research Institute

Human Research Institute, Hong Kong

(Image credit: Llewelyn Davies Yeang and T.R. Hamzah Yeang Sdn.Bhd)

Premier City

Premier City, Kazakhstan

(Image credit: Llewelyn Davies Yeang)

National Library

National Library Singapore, Singapore

(Image credit: T.R. Hamzah Yeang Sdn.Bhd)

Davies Yeang

Tashkent, Uzbekistan

(Image credit: Llewelyn Davies Yeang)

West Kowloon Waterfront

West Kowloon Waterfront, Hong Kong

(Image credit: T.R. Hamzah Yeang Sdn.Bhd)

The building

Zorlu, Turkey

(Image credit: Llewelyn Davies Yeang)

Ellie Stathaki is the Architecture & Environment Director at Wallpaper*. She trained as an architect at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and studied architectural history at the Bartlett in London. Now an established journalist, she has been a member of the Wallpaper* team since 2006, visiting buildings across the globe and interviewing leading architects such as Tadao Ando and Rem Koolhaas. Ellie has also taken part in judging panels, moderated events, curated shows and contributed in books, such as The Contemporary House (Thames & Hudson, 2018), Glenn Sestig Architecture Diary (2020) and House London (2022).