A 25-storey mobile sculpture
FUTURA is the apt name given to a luxury apartment development in Singapore whose perspective drawings could have come from the pen of a science-fiction illustrator, but are in fact the work of architect, Mr. Timothy Seow of Seow, Lee; Heah & Partners.
Seen on plan the project shows a series of circular and egg-shapes linked by a Y-shaped service core, and in the persepective no expanses of wall are
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visible and even the pillars appear to be modulation of glass screen walls, which light and glass-panelled.
abut at a tangent to the concrete cores, giving a powerful exterior expression in the fragmented mass of total composi- tion.
Mr. Seow says of his design, "The essential character of Futura is the inte- gration of concrete cores to the rich
Aerial view of Futura model
Far East BUILDER, November 1970
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