Centennial Tower Singapore

Centennial Tower Singapore « sntdesign

Centennial Tower was designed by Kevin Roche in 1997 but was later renewed by architect Thom Mayne in 2015. Mayne added an interlinking coat of metal windows that reflect the sunlight giving the building a distinct postmodernist look to it. The added pattern changes as it goes up the building creating different degrees of reflected light as the building rises. I enjoy this building because it almost seems like an optical illusion, especially In the picture above, as the top of the building presents itself as see-through or a part of the sky. People looking up will be the only ones to see this and I think that is a powerful message because you want buildings to seamlessly fit into the natural environments that they occupy. Before Mayne added this awesome feature, the building was bland and had little flavor which took away from the other surrounding buildings.

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