One of the aspects of Singapore that struck visitors at the time, in 1989, was the modernity of the buildings whose towers soared into the sky, a city partly made up of skyscrapers, such as there were few of on our old European continent at the time.
Here are a few examples
Also in Singapore's central square, the contrast between the old facades,
seen here on the commemorative sculpture, against the backdrop of the Raffles skyscraper
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Here we can see the flexibility of the Rollei SL66 with its tilting bellows,
This allows the foreground to be sharp in semi-macro, with the relative sharpness on the towers
on the same axis as the sculpture (Scheimpflug rule).
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Another set of towers like ships in the sky that attract and repel each other
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Concrete and not-so-large windows. It wasn't yet the age of metal and glass
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A round tower, with a (photographic) circular wave effect at the top !
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Arranged like cubes in the sky.
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Both slender and close, with an arch at ground floor level
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Apartment building under construction with terraces like cakes
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A detail of the building above, with the curve as the master element.
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External lifts for large office and residential buildings.
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In idéal pour Singapore: moving forward by building
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As if in response to Singapore's slogan: buildings on the horizon
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In contrast to the modernity of the new buildings,
scaffolding made of bamboo tied together with ropes was a common sight in town.
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Another example of bamboo scaffolding, for the restoration of an old house
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Renovations are well under way, combining elegance and tradition
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In other places, a slow invasion of vegetation close to new buildings.
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Singapore also has its popular areas, like any big city,
with balconies laden with drying linen
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The old town has some poor quarters, with its motley assortment of buildings,
all with their spiral outside staircases.
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Here you can see what must have been typical of working-class neighbourhoods :
lots of sheet metal, fences, TV, washing drying on the stairs.
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The hot, humid climate quickly led to the uncontrolled growth of vegetation
on abandoned houses.
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But we still come across what must have been the traditional home of the Singaporean middle class at the beginning of the twentieth century: a single-storey villa set in greenery.
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