Public Housing Flats at Yung Kwang Road by Jeremy San — Large Scale Print
Completion: 1970s
Architect: Jurong Town Corporation
In the 1970s, the Jurong Town Corporation (JTC) developed mass workers’ housing as part of its mandate to improve the welfare for occupants of Singapore’s first industrial estate, and create a model township conducive for investments. Along with industrial development and housing, the agency oversaw the establishment of social and recreational amenities such as the Jurong Bird Park, Chinese Garden, and Japanese Garden. A variation on the ubiquitous HDB slab blocks, these flats at Yung Kwang Road were clustered in twos, with each pair linked by aerial footbridges, and sharing a stand-alone lift core in between. The bridges and their corresponding common corridors were provided only at every third storey, with the levels in between accessed by stairs. Intended as a cost-saving measure, this housing typology also came to embody the early vision of Jurong as a modern industrial town. These flats were demolished in 2013.
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Approximate Size: Large scale print 1 m x 3 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.