The late American architect Paul Rudolph designed a few buildings in Singapore. Among them is the Colonnade, one of a handful of buildings with interesting design here in Singapore. Completed in the year 1988, the 28-storey apartment block still looks contemporary, as if it was just designed by some young architects with program/data-driven design approach.
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when architecture is full of critical aspects and sincerity.. it is beautiful... we could feel that, couldn't we?
Strangely, today I just had a conversation about this building that it will be impossible for singapore to have such design again because of the strict GFA interpretation.
Often people abuse rules and regulations until they eventually turn back and bite our own backside. To kerb the greed, sometimes somehow, creativity suffers.
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