The Showflat as Art Gallery

Scotts Square, with its enviable location (that lump of construction between Grand Hyatt and Marriott Hotel), is in fact, according to the Straits Times August 12, 2007, a “$3-million, 6,000sqft art gallery and showflat (…) to be demolished in 2009″. To be completed by end 2010, the gallery will feature local artists like Zul Othman, Ketna Patel and Lim Shing Ee.

I like the ending quote:’ I suppose developers are bringing showrooms to te people rather than the old model of people going to showrooms.’ - Raymond Lim 28, corporate communication, Les Amis Group. - Which would bring me to a later post, on ‘Lost Showflats’…

Specs: 338 units comprising of one, two and three-bedroom apartments of 600 sq ft, 900 sq ft and 1,200 sq ft respectively.-



Sculptures:- ‘Victoria & Albert Museum Chandelier’ by Dale Chihuly

‘ Working Model for Sheep Piece’ by Henry Moore

‘Three Indeterminate Lines’ by Bernar Venet

‘ Alice in Wonderland’ by Salvador Dali



Which seems to reverse the trend of larger units within the luxury development sector… And I’m not sure I understand the ‘no penthouses’ policy of the developer. Reckoned as a high-end developer(Ardmore Park is still reckoned as iconic of the high-end condominium phenomenon from the pre-’96 boom), their newer developments do not seem to offer penthouse units.



And smaller units tend to signal that investors (and those looking for a pied-a-terre in Singapore) are the target demographic here.

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