Posts Tagged “William Lim”

How People and Time Can Save Bad Design

by j u s t i n . z on April 11, 2013

Try calling the old National Library a “monstrous monument” and “a picture of total failure” today, and one can only imagine the uproar it will cause amongst nostalgic Singaporeans. But that’s exactly what architect William Lim and others of his (…)

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Singapore Alternatives

by j u s t i n . z on May 4, 2008

How else can Singapore look like today? This is a question lacking in the Singaporean psyche today. The Peoples’ Action Party’s version of the Singapore success story has been so entrenched as the only possibility that such a question often (…)

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Why we should create

by j u s t i n . z on November 18, 2007

Today’s Sunday Times lifestyle had an article about Mr Goh Poh Seng, a “cultural maverick” of early Singapore who wrote If We Dream Too Long in 1972 about a young man’s quest for identity in the newly independent nation. I have yet (…)

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