What do villages look like in a world where most people live in cities? Can close-knit communities even exist in the megapolis of the future? The Interlace, an unusual apartment building that was just crowned Building of the Year, thinks so.
The Interlace is an apartment complex in Singapore designed by Ole Scheeren, a German architect who spent many years as a partner at OMA (where he masterminded Beijing’s CCTV building). Today at the World Architecture Festival, it was chosen as Building of the Year after two days of presentations from finalists vying for the award.
Awards aside, it’s easy to see the future in the Interlace. This is a building that anyone who has ever lived in a city–and felt alone there–can relate to. It’s an attempt to make tall, dense apartment buildings capable of harboring healthy communities, like barnacles clinging to a concrete wall. And it does so with some really, really clever ideas about massing.
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