You know that weird-looking condominium along Depot Road that looks like bricks stacked together by a particularly eccentric toddler? It’s the best building in the world right now.
Designed by world-renowned architect Ole Scheeren and Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), The Interlace bagged the award at the World Architecture Festival last Saturday. The network of horizontal apartment blocks stacked in a honeycomb arrangement was praised for its design; said to be “blazing a trail with an example of bold, contemporary thinking”.
“The project presents an alternative way of thinking about developments which might otherwise become generic tower clusters,” said Festival director Paul Finch, as quoted by Daily Mail.
Scheeren had stated to Deezeen before that he wanted The Interlace to go against type — especially contrasting with Singapore’s swathe of boringly practical HDB flats.
“Housing has become simply compressed into a very standardised format,” he says. “I think this project shows in a really dramatic way, and also in a significant scale, that something else is possible.”
Photo: The Interlace Facebook page
