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Landscapes of Home - sinagpore

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An  inclined concrete canopy at the apartment entrances frames views out,  and shelters the common area from rain and glare. Photograph by Tan Kar  Lin“City for 3 Million” of 1923: a prophetic vision of high-rise, high density living proposed by Swiss-French modernist architect Le Corbusier. Though never realised, its planning and design ideas and principles were highly influential on Post-WWII generations of architects in their social housing designs world-wide – including Singapore. Source: www.newworldeconomics.com

“City for 3 Million” of 1923: a prophetic vision of high-rise, high density living proposed by Swiss-French modernist architect Le Corbusier. Though never realised, its planning and design ideas and principles were highly influential on Post-WWII generations of architects in their social housing designs world-wide – including Singapore. Source: www.newworldeconomics.com

Cover of “Our Home” Magazine, published by HDB from the 1970s till mid 1980s. Source: HDB (from “Our Home” Magazine, date unknown)Typical floor plan of 5-room improved flat unit. Source: HDB (from Yeh, “Public Housing in Singapore: A Multidisciplinary Study”, 1974)Dining Hall with ample daylight from Lea Hin steel windows (see  background). Photograph by Ho Chan KohView of a common corridor of an early 1960s HDB slab block, the “Selegie House”, prior to its upgrading in 2003. Photograph by Tan Kar Lin


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