Market Street Carpark by Jeremy San
Completion: 1964
Architect: Public Works Department, Singapore
Dubbed a “skyscraper car park” when it opened in 1964, this was Singapore’s first multi-storey car park, and also Southeast Asia’s largest at the time, able to host almost 800 cars and more than 100 motorcycles. A tourist bureau, snack bar, motor showroom, and shops animated its ground floor.
The designers responded to the triangular site with sweeping, curved corners, where vehicular ramps linked each level, effectively forming an eight-storey spiral that, uncoiled, would be a mile long. Visually these smooth, cream-coloured arcs floated above open voids, reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum. Much of the design’s elegance stems from the fact that it was almost pure structure, devoid of the clutter of walls, doors, windows, and roofs. The staircase at the heart of the structure was its hidden gem. At certain hours, sunlight filtering through its lattice of interlocking, hexagonal precast concrete blocks cast a dazzling pattern of shadows across the mosaic floor tiles —a daily dose of simple pleasure for its many users. The building was demolished in 2014 to make way for an office tower.
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Approximate Size: 1 m x 1.537 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: 1964
Architect: Public Works Department, Singapore
Dubbed a “skyscraper car park” when it opened in 1964, this was Singapore’s first multi-storey car park, and also Southeast Asia’s largest at the time, able to host almost 800 cars and more than 100 motorcycles. A tourist bureau, snack bar, motor showroom, and shops animated its ground floor.
The designers responded to the triangular site with sweeping, curved corners, where vehicular ramps linked each level, effectively forming an eight-storey spiral that, uncoiled, would be a mile long. Visually these smooth, cream-coloured arcs floated above open voids, reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum. Much of the design’s elegance stems from the fact that it was almost pure structure, devoid of the clutter of walls, doors, windows, and roofs. The staircase at the heart of the structure was its hidden gem. At certain hours, sunlight filtering through its lattice of interlocking, hexagonal precast concrete blocks cast a dazzling pattern of shadows across the mosaic floor tiles —a daily dose of simple pleasure for its many users. The building was demolished in 2014 to make way for an office tower.
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Approximate Size: 1 m x 1.537 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: 1964
Architect: Public Works Department, Singapore
Dubbed a “skyscraper car park” when it opened in 1964, this was Singapore’s first multi-storey car park, and also Southeast Asia’s largest at the time, able to host almost 800 cars and more than 100 motorcycles. A tourist bureau, snack bar, motor showroom, and shops animated its ground floor.
The designers responded to the triangular site with sweeping, curved corners, where vehicular ramps linked each level, effectively forming an eight-storey spiral that, uncoiled, would be a mile long. Visually these smooth, cream-coloured arcs floated above open voids, reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum. Much of the design’s elegance stems from the fact that it was almost pure structure, devoid of the clutter of walls, doors, windows, and roofs. The staircase at the heart of the structure was its hidden gem. At certain hours, sunlight filtering through its lattice of interlocking, hexagonal precast concrete blocks cast a dazzling pattern of shadows across the mosaic floor tiles —a daily dose of simple pleasure for its many users. The building was demolished in 2014 to make way for an office tower.
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Approximate Size: 1 m x 1.537 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.