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Importance Of Architecture In Singapore

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Suppose we are entering the city by way of the Great Park. Our fast car takes the special elevated motor park between the majestic skyscrapers … Here, bathed in light, stands the modern city …As twilight falls the glass skyscrapers seem to flame. – Le Corbusier
The best way to see Singapore. is to ascend one of its super tall towers. Choose a skyscraper and take an elevator to the top. Turn your gaze away from the alien city-scape growing on the other side of the river and look down on the land below. The high-rise towers are all cluserered…
Singapore which represents a city-state which is both a nation and, as we shall see, a world city.
Concern in this dissertation is with a Utopia, expressible in architectural terms as ‘modernism’. Taken from this more general perspective, the subservience of the humanities to technology has led to a blurring of disciplines or cultural practices. …show more content…

A small island located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula with no hinterland, Singapore is by far the most developed and modern country in Southeast Asia, wholly a product of colonial modernity. The ruling party, People’s Action Party (PAP), which inherited the apparatus of the colonial state following Singapore’s independence in 1965, has engineered its development into a modern independent nation-state to the present day with a nature of polity largely characterized by a centralized power structure and an elitist policy-making apparatus remaining unchanged. Manuel Castells “Singapore, against all odds, established itself as the showcase of the new developmental process, building a national identity on the basis of multinational investment attracted and protected by a developmental city-state.” An Asian society which is both very young and very old, is searching for an architectural language that seeks to synthesis Modernity and Tradition, Internationalism and Regionalism, High Technology and Craft

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