The National Arts Council’s $880,000 centralised bin centre first came with a trash-talking Twitter page — now it comes with commemorative Lego set as well.
Tay Kay Chin had the bright idea of doing his own SG51 follow-up to last year’s special addition to the Lego Architecture Series: The Singapore Rubbish Bin. After all, since the nondescript bin centre cost nearly a million dollars in consultancy and construction fees, it might as well be a national monument. Or rather, a monument to the controversy it’s attracted over the colossal price tag for a place to store bins.
Presumably costing way less than $880,000, Tay’s Lego masterpiece took 470 pieces to construct — and it’s pretty accurately, we have to say. Alas, his project manager apparently failed to read a clause that said “clients reserve the rights to make unlimited changes” — and so he had no choice but to throw in extra features for the sensational bin centre.
Meanwhile, the government has failed to see the absurd humour in the whole saga — authorities have tried their best to explain why the NAC bin centre was needed and why they paid through their collective noses for it.
