TOW FRANCIS ARCHITECTURE + URBAN DESIGN and TOW FRANCIS PTE LTD together offer a wide range of design consultancy services: architecture, interior design, urban design, space planning, furniture design and illustration. Our completed project types include hotel, educational, restaurant, office, showroom, retail, residential, health care, R&D laboratory and mixed use, as well as conservation. Our portfolio also features theatre and entertainment spaces and institutional projects. While the majority of our work has been built in Singapore, our firm has also completed projects in Malaysia, Brunei, Thailand and Sri Lanka, as well as designs for projects in the United States, China, the Maldives and Cambodia.

We tailor our services to meet each individual project. Depending on a client’s needs and budget, we provide one or more of the following: concept, design, tender documents, supervision and coordination. We have an ongoing commitment to creative solutions of lasting quality.

Heading TOW FRANCIS are Thomas Tow and Melanie Francis, offering combined professional experience of over fifty-five years. Their backgrounds include extensive work overseas in the UK and USA on a variety of project types. Prior to setting up their practice here, they headed the retail and convention centre interior components of Suntec City while engaged at Tsao & McKown Pte Ltd. TOW FRANCIS’ work has appeared in the Business Times, Interiors Quarterly, d+a, Trends, Home and Decor, Space, Home & Design, Zenith, Female and Living magazines, The Straits Times and the Singapore Interior Designers’ Showcase.

Thomas Tow trained in architecture and urban design at Oxford School of Architecture and began his professional career in London where he helped design the interiors of the House of Commons and worked for Fitch & Company on a variety of commercial projects. In New York City, he worked for Frank Williams and Associates and I.M. Pei and Partners. Tow has developed and exhibited urban design proposals for Times Square in New York City, the London Wall area of London and the town of Treviso, Italy. His work has appeared in Architectural Record and Architecture in the USA, the Architects’ Journal in Great Britain, Trends in New Zealand and d+a, Trends, Home & Decor, Interiors Quarterly, Inspirational Homes, Trends, ID, Living and Home & Design magazines in Singapore. He is a qualified architect in Singapore, as well as the United States and Great Britain.

Melanie Francis, an American, holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design degree from Texas A&M University and a Master of Architecture degree from Washington University in St. Louis. During her ten years in Boston, where she began her professional career, Ms. Francis worked on the Asian Export Art Wing of the Peabody Museum of Salem and the Hynes Convention Centre while at Kallmann, McKinnell & Wood, Architects. She also designed and managed corporate projects for clients such IBM, United States Trust Company and Bank of Boston. With a lifelong interest in art, Ms. Francis taught drawing to architecture and design students in the Boston area at institutions such as the Boston Architectural Center, Northeastern University and Endicott College. Her work has been exhibited in Boston and St. Louis and has appeared in Progressive Architecture , Architectural Record and Designer Specifier in the USA, Trends in New Zealand and The Business Times , The Straits Times, Interiors Quarterly , Home & Design, Living, Trends and Space magazines in Singapore. In 2004, she received a Merit Award in the IDC/ Nippon Paint 'Colour My World' Design Excellence Awards for the Acts Lifestyle project at China Square Central.  Ms. Francis is a registered architect in the United States and Singapore.