Walkway at Singapore General Hospital by Jeremy San
Completion: 1950s
Architect: Public Works Department, Singapore
The Singapore General Hospital (SGH) has its origins as a military infirmary in the early colonial days, and has been located at the Outram site since 1882. After more than a century of laissez-faire attitude towards public welfare, the post-war colonial government initiated a series of “cradle-to-grave” socialist programmes including the Medical Plan. A major project was the modernisation and expansion of SGH. For the first time in Singapore’s history, patients were no longer segregated according to gender or economic status, but according to ailments under specialised medical units.
Executed in phases from 1951 till 1960, the expansion was undertaken by Public Works Department (PWD) under architect K.A. Brundle. Modern facilities and quarters were introduced without demolishing existing buildings nor disrupting daily operations. The simple, even austere new additions—underpinned by principles of economy, ease of construction, and rational design—nonetheless projected a progressive image through the white cubic architectural language of High Modernism. Privacy, security, and discretion were poetically translated into the design of the hostel for female trainee nurses, including a sheltered walkway between the entrance gates and the building. Slender steel columns supported a thin concrete shell roof, while perforated screens of fair-faced brick stopped short of the canopy, allowing soft daylight to filter through. The pavilion-like structure was a delightful masterpiece of materiality and light. SGH underwent further restructuring and redevelopment in the post-independence decades. Unfortunately, much of its post-war built heritage was demolished in the process, including the walkway.
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Approximate Size: 1 m x 1.244 m. Framed.
This is the original print that was exhibited at “Moderns in Our Midst: A Photographic Tribute to Singapore’s Modern Architectural Heritage” in 2015.
UV Printing on 3 mm white DIBOND with 10 mm square aluminium channel on 4 sides. Print does not feature the artist's signature. No other framing options available. No certificate of authenticity provided.
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Completion: 1950s
Architect: Public Works Department, Singapore
The Singapore General Hospital (SGH) has its origins as a military infirmary in the early colonial days, and has been located at the Outram site since 1882. After more than a century of laissez-faire attitude towards public welfare, the post-war colonial government initiated a series of “cradle-to-grave” socialist programmes including the Medical Plan. A major project was the modernisation and expansion of SGH. For the first time in Singapore’s history, patients were no longer segregated according to gender or economic status, but according to ailments under specialised medical units.
Executed in phases from 1951 till 1960, the expansion was undertaken by Public Works Department (PWD) under architect K.A. Brundle. Modern facilities and quarters were introduced without demolishing existing buildings nor disrupting daily operations. The simple, even austere new additions—underpinned by principles of economy, ease of construction, and rational design—nonetheless projected a progressive image through the white cubic architectural language of High Modernism. Privacy, security, and discretion were poetically translated into the design of the hostel for female trainee nurses, including a sheltered walkway between the entrance gates and the building. Slender steel columns supported a thin concrete shell roof, while perforated screens of fair-faced brick stopped short of the canopy, allowing soft daylight to filter through. The pavilion-like structure was a delightful masterpiece of materiality and light. SGH underwent further restructuring and redevelopment in the post-independence decades. Unfortunately, much of its post-war built heritage was demolished in the process, including the walkway.
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Approximate Size: 1 m x 1.244 m. Framed.
This is the original print that was exhibited at “Moderns in Our Midst: A Photographic Tribute to Singapore’s Modern Architectural Heritage” in 2015.
UV Printing on 3 mm white DIBOND with 10 mm square aluminium channel on 4 sides. Print does not feature the artist's signature. No other framing options available. No certificate of authenticity provided.
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We also accept bank transfer or PayNow. Please contact us at admin@docomomo.sg to arrange for purchase directly with us.
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Completion: 1950s
Architect: Public Works Department, Singapore
The Singapore General Hospital (SGH) has its origins as a military infirmary in the early colonial days, and has been located at the Outram site since 1882. After more than a century of laissez-faire attitude towards public welfare, the post-war colonial government initiated a series of “cradle-to-grave” socialist programmes including the Medical Plan. A major project was the modernisation and expansion of SGH. For the first time in Singapore’s history, patients were no longer segregated according to gender or economic status, but according to ailments under specialised medical units.
Executed in phases from 1951 till 1960, the expansion was undertaken by Public Works Department (PWD) under architect K.A. Brundle. Modern facilities and quarters were introduced without demolishing existing buildings nor disrupting daily operations. The simple, even austere new additions—underpinned by principles of economy, ease of construction, and rational design—nonetheless projected a progressive image through the white cubic architectural language of High Modernism. Privacy, security, and discretion were poetically translated into the design of the hostel for female trainee nurses, including a sheltered walkway between the entrance gates and the building. Slender steel columns supported a thin concrete shell roof, while perforated screens of fair-faced brick stopped short of the canopy, allowing soft daylight to filter through. The pavilion-like structure was a delightful masterpiece of materiality and light. SGH underwent further restructuring and redevelopment in the post-independence decades. Unfortunately, much of its post-war built heritage was demolished in the process, including the walkway.
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Approximate Size: 1 m x 1.244 m. Framed.
This is the original print that was exhibited at “Moderns in Our Midst: A Photographic Tribute to Singapore’s Modern Architectural Heritage” in 2015.
UV Printing on 3 mm white DIBOND with 10 mm square aluminium channel on 4 sides. Print does not feature the artist's signature. No other framing options available. No certificate of authenticity provided.
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Alternative payment
We also accept bank transfer or PayNow. Please contact us at admin@docomomo.sg to arrange for purchase directly with us.
Shipping
Free shipping within Singapore. Please email us at admin@docomomo.sg with any queries or to get a custom shipping quote if you live outside Singapore.
A portion proceeds from Jeremy San's work will go to Singapore Heritage Society and Jeremy San's estate.
About Jeremy San
The late Jeremy San Tzer Ning was an accomplished architectural photographer based in Singapore, who documented local as well as regional architectural works in Malaysia, Hong Kong and China. Schooled in RMIT, Melbourne, Australia as an interior designer, his graduation thesis was an ambitious photo-documentation project of modern heritage buildings, which also spawned his photography career.
Upon graduation, Jeremy practised as an interior designer in the architecture office KNTA, and also collaborated with experimental design studios HAM Architects, LingHao Architects and AT Lab on various competition and proposals. His design training and practice experience gave him an empathetic eye as a photographer capturing architecture – whether historic, newly completed, or even under construction – as well as urban landscapes. He has been engaged by leading design firms including Alsop, Foster + Partners, Atelier Liu Yu Yang, K2LD, Formwerkz, KUU, Farm Works, UOL, DPA and ipli. His works are widely published, including in journals such as ish, Cubes, and SA. He was also commissioned by Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) to work on the Singapore 1:1 exhibitions (2005, 2007), and has collaborated with Studio Lapis on conservation documentation projects such as Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall. In 2012, he was awarded the Discernment Prize for the ICON de Martell Cordon Bleu photography awards.