Modern Built Heritage Conservation Wish List.
What laws should the Singapore government enact to save our modernist buildings?
The community weighs in with ideas, policies and incentives that the government should implement to save this segment of Singapore’s urbanscape. Analysis is written in conjunction with DP Architects Pte Ltd, Formwerkz Architects, Spatial Anatomy & Docomomo Singapore. Published on Design and Architecture website on 27 November 2020.
We’ve said a lot in the past five months about conserving our modern built heritage, including fleshing out why, detailing the environmental argument and taking you inside some of them to see just how liveable they are.
In the penultimate web story of this series, we now turn the focus onto what we hope the Singapore government will do from a policy and legal standpoint.
The reality is we are not asking for a reinvention of the wheel.
In the last 1980s to early 1990s, the URA developed six criteria to assess if a historical building should be conserved and 10 principles of conservation (read more here).
These could easily be adapted and applied to the modernist building inventory in Singapore.
The question is, what are we waiting for?
Here, we present perspectives and ideas from four other members of the design and architecture community.
