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Walking on water: Seeing Singapore anew after a job switch to design
Even for a nation made by design, Singapore is now truly pushing the boundaries
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The writer has become much struck by the pervasiveness of design, whether in the national narrative or our personal lives.
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SINGAPORE – What is it like to walk on water? It’s an impossibility, but architect-artist Randy Chan was persuasive: “Come, come!”
The next moment, I was loving the sensation of walking up a water terrace. Others sat, reclined or curled up with a book over the water – and all of us stayed dry. It was fun to imagine I was atop an aquatic abyss, but in reality we were all perched on “water seats” next to South Beach Tower in Marina Central.
