{"id":89795,"date":"2024-03-16T09:59:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T02:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/art4d.com\/?p=89795"},"modified":"2024-03-16T10:23:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T03:23:11","slug":"photo-essay-the-architecture-of-demolition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/art4d.com\/en\/2024\/03\/photo-essay-the-architecture-of-demolition","title":{"rendered":"PHOTO ESSAY : THE ARCHITECTURE OF DEMOLITION"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"metaslider-id-89772\" style=\"max-width: 1500px; margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-94-0 metaslider metaslider-nivo metaslider-89772 ml-slider ms-theme-default\" role=\"region\" aria-roledescription=\"Slideshow\" aria-label=\"PHOTO ESSAY - THE ARCHITECTURE OF DEMOLITION\">\n <div id=\"metaslider_container_89772\">\n <div class='slider-wrapper theme-default'><div class='ribbon'><\/div><div id='metaslider_89772' class='nivoSlider'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/art4d.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/1chew_01-web.jpg\" height=\"1500\" width=\"1500\" title=\"1chew_01-web\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-89772 slide-89784\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/art4d.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2chew_02-web.jpg\" height=\"1500\" width=\"1500\" title=\"2chew_02-web\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-89772 slide-89785\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/art4d.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/3chew_03-web.jpg\" height=\"1500\" width=\"1500\" title=\"3chew_03-web\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-89772 slide-89786\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/art4d.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/4chew_04-web.jpg\" height=\"1500\" width=\"1500\" title=\"4chew_04-web\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-89772 slide-89787\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/art4d.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/5chew_05-web.jpg\" height=\"1500\" width=\"1500\" title=\"5chew_05-web\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-89772 slide-89788\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/art4d.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/6chew_06-web.jpg\" height=\"1500\" width=\"1500\" title=\"6chew_06-web\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-89772 slide-89789\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/art4d.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/7Float-ZFC_2181-web.jpg\" height=\"1500\" width=\"1500\" title=\"7Float ZFC_2181-web\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-89772 slide-89790\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/art4d.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/8Lakeside-ZFC_3222-web.jpg\" height=\"1500\" width=\"1500\" title=\"8Lakeside ZFC_3222-web\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-89772 slide-89791\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/art4d.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/9Toa-Payoh-ZFC_3230-web.jpg\" height=\"1500\" width=\"1500\" title=\"9Toa Payoh ZFC_3230-web\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-89772 slide-89792\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/art4d.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/10overall-web.jpg\" height=\"1500\" width=\"1500\" title=\"10overall-web\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-89772 slide-89793\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" \/><\/div><\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: relevant-bold; font-size: 12pt;\">TEXT & PHOTO: AKAI CHEW<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: rm-regular; font-size: 10pt;\">(For Thai, press <a href=\"https:\/\/art4d.com\/2024\/03\/photo-essay-the-architecture-of-demolition\">here<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: rm-regular; font-size: 12pt;\">Singapore is a city in constant change. Buildings are built and redeveloped at a fast pace. A 30-year-old building is seen as ripe for redevelopment. In Singapore, demolition and construction are everywhere. Like a magician throwing a piece of cloth upwards and vanishing when the cloth drops, when the scaffold drops, the building is no longer there. Since 2015, the pace of demolition has escalated to outrageous proportions. Currently, four of the top 10 tallest redeveloped buildings in the world are in Singapore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: rm-regular; font-size: 12pt;\">In the 1960s, Singapore used urban development to catalyze the new country’s economy. New skyscrapers signaled a new era. Today, some of these buildings have been demolished.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: rm-regular; font-size: 12pt;\">Demolition and construction in Singapore are almost as much architecture as an actual building. In the past few decades, redevelopment and loss of the natural and built environment have been seen and accepted with apathy and as a necessity to Singapore’s economic growth and urbanization; it was progressing as Singapore rose to become a better city. In Singapore, the contemporary is the history of 10 years later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: rm-regular; font-size: 12pt;\">As our post-independence era architecture gets slowly erased and replaced, it opens further questions on the outrageous.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: rm-regular; font-size: 12pt;\">I thought about vintage photographs showing Singapore in the 19th century. We look to the past in fascination, and we think to ourselves how much the city has changed since then. Maybe in Singapore, this past might just be 10 or 20 years ago.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">_____________<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: rm-regular; font-size: 12pt;\">Akai Chew is a Singapore-based artist whose background in architecture, urban planning, and architectural heritage informs his contemporary art practice. As an artist, he works primarily with photography and site-specific installations. Akai studied architecture and built environments at the University of Tasmania in Australia. He has exhibited extensively in Singapore, Bandung, New Delhi, Hobart, and Launceston.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: boing-bold; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/_a_kai_\">instagram.com\/_a_kai_<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Singapore, the lifecycle of buildings seems to be very brief. This photo essay by Akai Chew looks at the past of Singapore that appears to be remote, yet it was actually from a few years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2294,"featured_media":89780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5682],"tags":[5800,5819,5898,20734,20736],"class_list":["post-89795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-essay","tag-architecture","tag-photography","tag-renovation","tag-akai-chew","tag-demolition"],"acf":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":89795},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/art4d.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/art4d.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/art4d.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art4d.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art4d.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89795"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/art4d.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89799,"href":"https:\/\/art4d.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89795\/revisions\/89799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art4d.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/art4d.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art4d.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/art4d.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}