"Metabolist Regeneration of a Dementia Nation" by Jerome Ng Xin Hao 

Singapore’s Golden Mile Complex would be celebrated in many other countries, as an important icon of 1970’s Metabolist urbanism, yet in its home city - it faces imminent demolition. More than eighty similar sites have already been destroyed, as part of a progressive nation building programme. I speculates on an alternative vision for this huge residential block, that not only saves the building, but allows it to absorb physical artifacts from Singapore's threatened urban infrastructure. A prototype for an alternative pattern for future development and craft-making in architecture; capable of allowing new and existing residents to forge new memories, whilst giving space for the past to breathe. The drawing documents the lives of a series of Golden Mile residents, urging us all to resist the power structures that would see our urban memories so readily erased.