TODAY we are ecstatic and grateful to celebrate our 34th anniversary. Each year, as we celebrate our anniversary, I fondly look back at the rearview mirror of the past 34 years and the windshield panoramic view of the next years. I recall both the milestones and challenges we overcame, which I believe have equally contributed to our successes and resiliency through the years. Establishing Palafox Associates was a challenge in itself. Back in 1989, when I set up Palafox Associates with three other colleagues, it was an unsuitable time to start a company due to local coup attempts, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the Tiananmen Square massacre, among others.

Since then, 34 years later, we have thankfully completed more than 1,800 projects in 40 countries that encompass the master planning of more than 51 billion square meters of land and the architecture and design of more than 20 million square meters of building floor area.