techPlate 195 · Singapore, Singapore

Esplanade Theatres

Two durians of steel, so a tropical city would have an arts centre that looked like fruit.

2002 · DP Architects & Michael Wilford · Asia

The chamber score

Di Tanjong Katong

Traditional Malay · Singapore

The island's oldest popular line.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

The performing arts centre on the bay, a landmark of Singaporean identity.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Esplanade Theatres through tech — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Esplanade Theatres was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.