essays in professional journals

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2015:

Surrendering to Memory, Art and Life:

The National Gallery Singapore

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Nearly eight years since the design competition, the newly restored and converted National Gallery Singapore by studioMilou Singapore and CPG Consultants gears up for its opening later this year. With an interest in the building’s new role as a public space, Lilian Chee and Tan Qian Rou review and reflect on the delicate and public transformations of two national civic monuments—the City Hall and former Supreme Court—into the single new icon for Singapore and her art.