A Wes Anderson-ish Trip Around Singapore Town

Let’s take an architectural trip around Singapore and rediscover all the symmetrical perspectives of familiar landmarks in town before celebrating Christmas and embracing 2021. Despite the circuit breaker period when outdoor, social life and much of urban construction works stood still, there are quite a few changes to the facade of Singapore’s built environment. We welcome newcomers like Apple Marina Bay Sands and State Courts Towers, await the completion of CapitaSpring, rejoice over the conservation of certain landmarks like Golden Mile Complex, and bidding farewells to the oldboys like Shaw Tower and Sentosa Merlion. This video captured the 2D, or symmetrical sides of the above buildings along with a selected number of national monuments, recently completed projects, and places that may soon disappear from the urban facade. The sequence is based loosely on the song “Singapore Town”, before I get too carried away exploring the symmetrical world. In case you are not familiar, Wes Anderson is