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Poor designs in Singapore
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I used to hang around United Square (former Goldhill Square) when I was a student and always wondered which nutjob designed that fucking building. Inside is a maze. The layout didn't make any sense! If it's your first time there, you won't have a clue how to move from one floor to the next!
For the longest time it was a ghost town despite the semi-prime location and vast space. After Gallery Lafayette moved out in the 80s, it was only home to childcare centers, tile retailers and such.
Then I went back 10 years ago and wow... it became one of the hottest retail areas outside town. I don't know if they've improved the interior layout though...
For the longest time it was a ghost town despite the semi-prime location and vast space. After Gallery Lafayette moved out in the 80s, it was only home to childcare centers, tile retailers and such.
Then I went back 10 years ago and wow... it became one of the hottest retail areas outside town. I don't know if they've improved the interior layout though...
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No need to go far, just look at all our HDB flats which are also badly designed by dunno which idiot architech.
Right from the start the designer and planner don't even bother to consider about the long term convenience for the elderly and disabled people.
Right from the start the designer and planner don't even bother to consider about the long term convenience for the elderly and disabled people.
Are you sure about that
The only thing there is a Cold Storage & the makan places.
Otherwise the shops & services for kids. The only adult oriented stores are Popular & Challenger.
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You want to talk about poor architectural design? Just take a look at that ridiculous 'flying saucer' sitting on top of the Supreme Court building along North Bridge Road.
Absolutely hideous.
Absolutely hideous.
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Durians/housefly eyes another expensive eyesore
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Those designed & built by HDB in the 1980's is a MAZE, I am always amazed at how these "space designers" ( borrow from that ITE girl), design such flats. For example, you go block 444 to visit your friend at 07-444 for the first time, the lift go to 5, 8, 12. Naturally you take lift to 8 floor & walk down, you start walking searching for a clue to go to 07-444, you can walked to the extreme right end or left, you start to so down & discover you you end up getting a few house, but not that 07-444, you got lost in that maze. You have to go back up to 8 floor, walk to the stairs column after the lift, descend to 07-444!!, the stairs at extreme left & right are no through passages.
This is why they are making the residents PAY for their SPACE DESIGN ( maybe designed by Ah Meng at her kids), to IMPROVE their living SPACE. It is aMAZED how we are conned... ha ha ha ha
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Horse racing used to be at the ground level at extreme left end, used to be a very sleepy shopping mall, know this place when it was first built. Cold Storage is at basement, Toys R Us is at 2nd or 3rd? I think Ya Kun had their first outlet there, & there is a shop selling Laksa, the food court is wee bit sleepy, & there are now quite a number of food stalls, not mention a shop selling PC games etc at basement, other than that, it is filled with child care..there is a pet shop near the taxi stand on ground level. Have not been there for some time, how it look like now, really don't know. Used to get there, walking from the underpass from Novena MRT Station..
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Goldhill square only remember going to
Cognac KTV there....
Brauhaus still there but it's international beer concept been copies by others.
Cognac KTV there....
Brauhaus still there but it's international beer concept been copies by others.
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one of the more interesting building designs is a humble church along commonwealth drive with a unique roof.
otherwise, most new bldg design is neither groundbreaking nor pretty.
otherwise, most new bldg design is neither groundbreaking nor pretty.
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y dun dey bring ze balcony in2 ze haus? ...
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Some tried...by raising de balcony floor, building full ht window...end up de flat lok even more fuck up frm outside...
So far the only building design I like is this building along beachroad where if you drive down nicoll highway you can see. Looks like steps with housing on each step near the St Johns school and that furniture shopping mall can't remember the place.
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Still nobody says where is the location for the 2nd pic???
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Don't know how to do a reverse image search?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LASALLE_College_of_the_Arts
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