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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