What if you could dream up any building you like? What would it be? How would constructing it change our lives?
A shopping mall self-destructs, and a single mother vanishes. A tree house for orphans and old folks is torn apart by an act of mercy. The Singapore Flyer is reinvented as a political prison. In this collection of nine tales, Clara Chow examines an alternative Singaporean landscape-one that exists only on paper-and the people we might be in it. A former newspaper correspondent, she interviews nine architects about chimeric structures and sets short stories in them. A hybrid of journalism and fiction, Dream Storeys documents the voices of urban visionaries, while taking their ideas into inventive, evocative new territories.
Architects featured
Yen Yen Wu - Chang Jiat-Hwee - Nirmal Kishnani - Lai Chee Kien - Michael Leong - Mark Wee - Olivia Tang - Joshua Comaroff - Tan Kok Hiang
© 2016 by Clara Chow. Published in paper format in Singapore by Ethos Books, recorded by Storyside 2020.