Went to Chinatown with a childhood friend...
we checked out people's park complex, which i wanted to see for my western archi mod, don't ask me why. it's to do with my essay, which i am very worried about. People's Park Complex was designed in 1967 by William Lim (who set up DP architects), Tay Kheng Soon and Koh Seow Chuan the first year the firm was set up (source: wikipedia).
The People's Park Complex is large mixed use development, consisting of office blocks and apartments above a podium of shopping space. I was reading 'Mega-cities in the tropics - towards an architectural agenda for the future' by Tay, and in it he also mentioned how mixed-use buildings are an architectural solution for the tropics. He also talked about the demarcation of public, private and semi private space, which is also found in this building, what with the public (and anonymous spaces) below, the private spaces (in the apartment blocks) and the roof level common area (semi private?) which encourages socializing (maybe). I think this was one of the buildings whereby Tay tested out certain ideas that were later inherent in his manifesto.
the green stuns me a bit. it wasn't originally supposed to be in green, it was raw concrete...'in keeping with the Brutalist architectural style.' (source: wikipedia)
The building's main tower accommodates a variety of apartment sizes, and access to them is independent of the shopping centre at the podium. (source: wikipedia)
Its 25 levels have been nicknamed "streets in the air", a development of the Corbusian ideal, and offer convenient spots for social interaction and intermingling. Well, okay, I couldn't get into the apartments (i tried) but it seems that there are plenty of spots for social interaction and intermingling, car-park stairways or not.
As mentioned earlier, the architecture was Brutalist, and here you can see the design of the tower, and circular potholes topping off the residential building. It's clearer in the next picture.
ditto. I think it looks kinda cool, despite all the yellow and green. Very solid and strong...and solid. and strong.
Design Partnership added verticals to the building's roof, enhancing the visual impact of the residential block (source: wikipedia). There is no connection to the picture here, really, but this looks very vertical. How to add verticals to a roof, anyway?
Those air con units look like insects climbing up the building's facades...(if you realize, i have exhausted wikipedia and now have nothing to write)
ha, that big duct thing looks like a centipede!! A green one!!
The shopping centre incorporates the first "city room" or atrium in Singapore, a concept that was pioneered by several Japanese architects under the Metabolist Movement in the 1960s. When Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki visited the site during construction, he exclaimed "But we theorised and you people are getting it built!". The shops in the shopping mall surrounds the large internal "city room", which consists of two multi-storey interlocking atriums, where a large number of "turn-over shops" and kiosks are located. The "city room" serves to retain the busy character of Chinatown.
People's Park Complex at night. It looks glittery!! I wonder why whenever i take night shots i take a very clear first shot, and then i suddenly realize it is dark, then i start trying to stabilize the camera, and all subsequent shots are shaky. whenever i stop to think i don't do very well. maybe i should rely on instinct a bit more in the future. haha.
then we walked around chinatown...childhood friend was covering chinatown for her ss mod...so we had to check out all the streets
and we saw lanterns...
and cool shophouses
and perspectives...
and lanterns and windows...
I wonder why hor, the building doesn't look straight? Isit my lens?
This is an interesting building...It looks weird...Chinatown has alot of weird buildings.
Alan Woo just told us today that Pearl Banks Apartments may be torn down for new development...DON'T PLEASE!!! A good, solid building like this with architecture (bearing the trademarks of early modernism) you can never find anywhere else (in the world) should NEVER be torn down in the name of 'development'. In it's time it was the tallest residential tower block in Asia.
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we checked out people's park complex, which i wanted to see for my western archi mod, don't ask me why. it's to do with my essay, which i am very worried about. People's Park Complex was designed in 1967 by William Lim (who set up DP architects), Tay Kheng Soon and Koh Seow Chuan the first year the firm was set up (source: wikipedia).
The People's Park Complex is large mixed use development, consisting of office blocks and apartments above a podium of shopping space. I was reading 'Mega-cities in the tropics - towards an architectural agenda for the future' by Tay, and in it he also mentioned how mixed-use buildings are an architectural solution for the tropics. He also talked about the demarcation of public, private and semi private space, which is also found in this building, what with the public (and anonymous spaces) below, the private spaces (in the apartment blocks) and the roof level common area (semi private?) which encourages socializing (maybe). I think this was one of the buildings whereby Tay tested out certain ideas that were later inherent in his manifesto.
the green stuns me a bit. it wasn't originally supposed to be in green, it was raw concrete...'in keeping with the Brutalist architectural style.' (source: wikipedia)
The building's main tower accommodates a variety of apartment sizes, and access to them is independent of the shopping centre at the podium. (source: wikipedia)
Its 25 levels have been nicknamed "streets in the air", a development of the Corbusian ideal, and offer convenient spots for social interaction and intermingling. Well, okay, I couldn't get into the apartments (i tried) but it seems that there are plenty of spots for social interaction and intermingling, car-park stairways or not.
As mentioned earlier, the architecture was Brutalist, and here you can see the design of the tower, and circular potholes topping off the residential building. It's clearer in the next picture.
ditto. I think it looks kinda cool, despite all the yellow and green. Very solid and strong...and solid. and strong.
Design Partnership added verticals to the building's roof, enhancing the visual impact of the residential block (source: wikipedia). There is no connection to the picture here, really, but this looks very vertical. How to add verticals to a roof, anyway?
Those air con units look like insects climbing up the building's facades...(if you realize, i have exhausted wikipedia and now have nothing to write)
ha, that big duct thing looks like a centipede!! A green one!!
The shopping centre incorporates the first "city room" or atrium in Singapore, a concept that was pioneered by several Japanese architects under the Metabolist Movement in the 1960s. When Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki visited the site during construction, he exclaimed "But we theorised and you people are getting it built!". The shops in the shopping mall surrounds the large internal "city room", which consists of two multi-storey interlocking atriums, where a large number of "turn-over shops" and kiosks are located. The "city room" serves to retain the busy character of Chinatown.
People's Park Complex at night. It looks glittery!! I wonder why whenever i take night shots i take a very clear first shot, and then i suddenly realize it is dark, then i start trying to stabilize the camera, and all subsequent shots are shaky. whenever i stop to think i don't do very well. maybe i should rely on instinct a bit more in the future. haha.
then we walked around chinatown...childhood friend was covering chinatown for her ss mod...so we had to check out all the streets
and we saw lanterns...
and cool shophouses
and perspectives...
and lanterns and windows...
I wonder why hor, the building doesn't look straight? Isit my lens?
This is an interesting building...It looks weird...Chinatown has alot of weird buildings.
Alan Woo just told us today that Pearl Banks Apartments may be torn down for new development...DON'T PLEASE!!! A good, solid building like this with architecture (bearing the trademarks of early modernism) you can never find anywhere else (in the world) should NEVER be torn down in the name of 'development'. In it's time it was the tallest residential tower block in Asia.
more info
and more
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