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Malayan Architects Co-partnership 馬來亞合伙制建築事務所
Lim Chong Keat 林蒼吉
Model, Singapore Conference Hall and Trade Union House (1961–1965), Singapore 新加坡大會堂和職工會大廈（1961–1965）模型
1965, reproduced 2017
This model reproduces a competition model for the Singapore Conference Hall and Trade Union House by the Malayan Architects Co-partnership. Completed in 1965, the year of the country’s independence, the project was Singapore’s first international event venue. The building also accommodated communications facilities and union offices, a combination of functions reflecting political alliances in the early 1960s.
The building is organised around five thick service cores, which anchor the edges of a grid of square columns. A massive cantilevered roof caps the structure. Within this frame, the architects layer rectangular volumes and open terraces and concourses, while thinner vertical planes provide sun shading. Visitors enter a naturally ventilated, multi-storey atrium, easily accessible from the street. Surface treatments throughout the building adopt abstracted Malay weaving patterns. While its form and material are consistent with the original, this model also incorporates information from other archival documents, including photographs of the realised structure.
With its attention to climate and subtle references to local motifs, the building blends an ambitious, optimistic international modernism with concerns specific to postcolonial Singapore. Now known as the Singapore Conference Hall, it was made a national monument in 2010.
The building is organised around five thick service cores, which anchor the edges of a grid of square columns. A massive cantilevered roof caps the structure. Within this frame, the architects layer rectangular volumes and open terraces and concourses, while thinner vertical planes provide sun shading. Visitors enter a naturally ventilated, multi-storey atrium, easily accessible from the street. Surface treatments throughout the building adopt abstracted Malay weaving patterns. While its form and material are consistent with the original, this model also incorporates information from other archival documents, including photographs of the realised structure.
With its attention to climate and subtle references to local motifs, the building blends an ambitious, optimistic international modernism with concerns specific to postcolonial Singapore. Now known as the Singapore Conference Hall, it was made a national monument in 2010.
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