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Singapore Buona Vista Masterplan Competition, Singapore
Author(s) -
Architects Toyo Ito Associates
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1192
Subject(s) - typology , competition (biology) , plan (archaeology) , architecture , sociology , archaeology , history , anthropology , ecology , biology
A plan for an IT‐based research city in Singapore provided Toyo Ito & Associates with the unique opportunity to rethink urban typology. In a project that revives some of the ideas of 1960s metabolism, Ito recasts architecture and infrastructure in a unified structure that envisions the city environment as a ‘neuron‐like network of sequences’.