There is a large number and great diversity of buildings in Singapore that can be considered as modern. By modern, we are referring to not just architectural aesthetics but also constructional and environmental techniques, socio-economic processes, cultures, and political rationalities. The quantity and diversity are rooted in Singapore’s short but vibrant history variously as a colonial port city, a post-independent developmental state, and a contemporary global city. In this short introduction of the inventory list, we provide a brief sketch of how the shortlisted modernist buildings help to bring this rich socio-cultural history to life.

Article on The Straits Times - URA to study how to give Singapore's ageing modernist buildings a new lease of life.

“Time has taken its toll on many large modernist buildings, which are in need of major retrofitting and upgrading. Now, these simple structures will be the subject of a study called by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) to guide its policies on how to maintain and rehabilitate them.”

Article on Docomomo Singapore in A Magazine: read-a.com.

“Meet The Movement Fighting To Protect Singapore’s Modernist BuildingsThe demolition of significant modernist buildings needs to stop, says Docomomo Singapore, which is determined to make sure it does.”

What laws should the Singapore government enact to save our modernist buildings?

There's a new reason to preserve Singapore's landmark modernist buildings: the reduction of carbon emissions by extending their lives instead of demolishing them.

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Singapore’s global mindset is evident from the collection of modernist buildings designed by a slew of foreign architects.

- with Docomomo Singapore, WATG and Wimberly Interiors, NUS School of Design & Environment

Groups across the region are rallying to save buildings that officials consider too new, too ugly or too unimportant to protect from demolition.

The conference aims to uncover and showcase how innovative adaptive reuse of modernist buildings and sites - once seen as avant-garde and progressive - could imbue a new lease of life and recover their 'cutting edge' through creative planning, programming and design, tackling pressing global issues such as environmental sustainability and urban liveability.

Docomomo Singapore aims to create a list of 50 post-1965 buildings to help raise profile of Singapore's modernist architecture — The Straits Times.