In many ways, Singaporean architecture still suffers a little from the metallic and glass box mentality. If it was good enough for Mies van der Rohe, the thinking goes, it’s good enough for the tropics; which explains the inordinate number of climate inappropriate buildings that dot the island. Thankfully, the past decade or so has seen more adventurous designs take hold as savvier clients push architects to create outside the box a little more and to develop a more tropical Asian vernacular.
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