A building should meet obligations of commodity(utility), firmness and delight.
Commodity addresses how a building serves its function and can be made more useful to the occupants.
Firmness means endurance, or a building's ability to stand up to natural forces over time.
Delight refers to aesthetics. Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy devoted to beauty. It dissects the visual compositional elements like proportion and line, as well as other formal qualities—auditory, tactile, olfactory, thermal, and even kinesthetic—that achieve beauty.
Source:http://www.wbdg.org/design/aesthetics.php
An example of an architectural design in Singapore is the esplanade
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