National Stadium by Jeremy San
Inauguration: 1973
Architect: Public Works Department, Singapore
The National Stadium was inaugurated in 1973, in time for the 7th Southeast Asian Peninsular Games that Singapore hosted. Designed by the Public Works Department of Singapore, it was conceived as the centrepiece of the Kallang Park Sports Complex, a comprehensive mass spectator sports, leisure, and exhibition centre that would occupy the former landing grounds of Kallang Airport. For the subsequent three decades, the edifice was the unrivalled venue of numerous memorable matches and spectacular National Day Parades.
The architecture comprised a megastructure purely expressed in reinforced concrete that supported vast rake seating terraces while providing shelter to spacious decks on several levels. In this photograph, heroic diagonal beams on soaring columns formed an impressive colonnade all around the stadium, carrying aloft seating decks for 55,000 spectators. The interior was designed to offer unobstructed views in the round, with a column-free roof cantilevering 20 metres over the grandstand. In 2003, the government announced redevelopment plans to build a new S$800 million Sports Hub in place of the 34-years-old Sports Complex. Demolition work began in October 2010, and the stadium joined the rubble of two other obliterated nation-building icons – the National Theatre (1961-1984) and National Library (1960-2004)
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Approximate Size: 1 m x 1.501 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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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.