Singapore is the largest port in Southeast Asia and one of the busiest in the world.
Its expansion and wealth are due to its strategic location on the Malay Peninsula's southern tip, where it controls the Strait of Malacca, which connects the Indian Ocean to the South China Sea.
Singapore, once a British colony and now a Commonwealth member, joined the Federation of Malaysia when it was formed in 1963, but on August 9, 1965, it seceded to become an independent state.
Architecture comes to reflect the symbiotic relationship between two countries and the positive effect on a larger urban and regional setting in this historic joint venture development between the governments of Malaysia and Singapore.
FACTS ABOUT TWIN TOWER
- The DUO twin buildings, designed by Ole Scheeren, are a gesture of urban reconciliation. DUO merges the surrounding context with its wide mix of uses around a 24-hour accessible public plaza to build a new civic nexus for Singapore's dynamic, wealthy life, and was designed to bring together a previously separate area of the city.
- The Malaysian and Singaporean governments have collaborated on DUO for the first time in history. The joint-venture development reflects a new age of collaboration between the two Southeast Asian countries under the supervision of both Prime Ministers and through their respective state investment arms, Khazanah and Temasek.
- The exquisite texture of a honeycomb shading system ripples over their curving façade. The slim forms of the buildings enclose the public areas, while the resulting geometries compliment the existing architecture's angles and create a landscape of covered and open-air gardens, walks, cafes, and restaurants that blend in with the surrounding terrain.
If you want to visit Singapore, you should go first here in the Twin Tower since it was the most beautiful view you could see in the said country.
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