We provide architecture, master planning, urban design, public realm and environmental design, interiors, as well as product design and performing arts design ser We provide architecture, master planning, urban design, public realm and environmental design, interiors, as well as product design and performing arts design services. OAC, led by acclaimed architectural designers, Charles Phu and Roger
Whiteman, can draw on the international experience of our senior architectural designers Oliver Hempel, Falko Schmitt, and other OAC members. With his architectural training background and passions in music and performing arts, Charles Phu has been actively involved in architectural design internationally, as well as opera and ballet performances stage set design. Roger Whiteman has been actively involved in architectural design, management and delivery for high profile international projects over 30 years. Both have worked on and successfully delivered a number of internationally prominent architectural and master plan projects. We believe that good buildings are not about style; they are created and exist to inspire people with the past, present, and future. The locality is the root. These are difficult to find in today’s buildings. Both Phu and Whiteman believe that to bring them back to people’s daily lives is architects’ most important responsibility. To enhance our core philosophy we are advised by internationally renowned experts and advisers in art, culture, and performing arts, alongside our international engineering specialist consultants. The core of OAC is - the cultural consciousness and creativity of the team of professionals who spearhead its design and project-focused approach. It is a team dedicated to a philosophy of creating ‘an aesthetic rooted in culture, innovative concepts' and the use of the latest technologies. The team’s high standard in the delivery of uncompromised high quality architectural projects is based on its strong belief in respecting and celebrating local people, context, culture and heritage. OAC’s design ethos is complemented by a client-centred, project-orientated and, where appropriate, multi-skilled approach. True teamwork among complementary professional disciplines readily translates into a constructive project partnership with clients and consultants. To us, architecture is a realisation of harmony between human, environment, still and movement. It must be rooted in local culture and human heritage, and it must bring culture and human heritage to the next level.
