Sunday, October 24, 2010

The Interlace



"Designed by Ole Scheeren, partner of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), The Interlace breaks away from Singapore’s standard typology of isolated, vertical apartment towers and instead explores a dramatically different approach to tropical living: an expansive interconnected network of living and communal spaces integrated with the natural environment. Thirty-one apartment blocks, each six-stories tall and identical in length, are stacked in a hexagonal arrangement to form eight large-scale open and permeable courtyards. The interlocking blocks form a vertical village with cascading sky gardens and both private and public roof terraces." to find out more...
Image and Passage via http://www.dezeen.com/2009/09/04/the-interlace-by-oma/

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Example of Brutalist architecture from 1950s!