TY  - GEN
AU  - Change, Jiat Hwee
AU  - Zhuang, Justin
TI  - Everyday modernism : architecture and society in Singapore
SN  - 9789813251878
U1  - 720.95957 
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Singapore
PB  - Ridge Books
N1  - Contents
Introduction
Everyday Modernism: The Singapore Vernacular  67
LIVE
1 Public Housing: The Many Shapes of Home  86
2 People's Park: Pioneering Integrated Living in a Denser City  92
3 Futura: The Past and Future of Luxury High-rise Apartments  96
4 Pandan Valley: The Domestication of "Rural" Singapore  102
5 Pearl Bank Apartments: How Can We Maintain the High Life?  108
PLAY
6 Cinemas: The Architecture of Advertisement  116
7 Shopping Centres: Moving Retail from the Streets to the Interior  122  
8 Hotels: Singapore as a Tropical Asian Paradise  128  
9 Lookout Towers: Views of Singapore's Modern Development  134
10 East Coast Park: "The Singapore Way" of Recreation  140
11 HOB Playgrounds: Sandboxes for Moulding Model Citizens  144
12 City Council Pools: Swimming for Health, Leisure and Survival  148
13 Former Singapore Badminton Hall: Financial Gymnastics and Sporting Venues  152
WORK
14 Shenton Way: Singapore's Commercial Centre Grows Up!  160
15 Industrial Spaces: Housing Industrialisation, then a Tech Revolution  166
16 Jurong Town Hall Road: The Industrial Future as Brutalist  172
17 Tan Boon Liat Building: A Modern Godown for the Creative Economy  178
TRAVEL
18 Market Street Car Park: Up, Up ... and Who Pays? 184
19 Pan-Island Expressway: Speeding Up and Spreading Out Modern Life 190
20 Pedestrian Overhead Bridges: Staying Safe Amidst Accelerated Development 196
21 Interchanges: The "Nerve Centre" of an Efficient Public Transport 202
CONNECT
22 Public Schools: In Search of a Flexible and Identifiable "Instructional Equipment" 208
23 Institutes of Higher Education: Systems Planning to Support a Technocratic State 214
24 Institutional Buildings: A New Monumentality 220
25 Public Libraries: " Palaces for the People" 226
26 Community Centres: Modernising the "Central Nervous System" of Singapore 232
27 Hawker Centres: Regulating Itinerant Individuals into a Social Institution 238
28 Lucky Plaza: A Mall for the Migrants Who Modernised Singapore 244
PRAY
29 Churches: Bringing God Closer to the Suburbs and the People  252
30 Cinema-Churches: From a "House of Pictures" to a "House of Prayers"  256
31 Darul Aman Mosque: A Modern Revival of the Traditional  260
32 Columbaria: Raising Up the Dead for the Living  266
Index  272
Image Credits  284
Biographies  288
Acknowledgements  289

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