sbst275 SG Well... Some times cannot save... Ppl now want better lib... As for design, there will always be talk abt it
macjoe SG ...and nobody in Parliament question and request for review the funding system today that govt boards exploit to embark on giant white elephant projects. Why do sleepers throw and draw so much money?
sbst275 SG Now it seems with ppl questioning how govt spend $$, MOE has cut subsidising students enrichment prog… Student go overseas now have to pay full fare
r3plica SG in my opinion... $200m for a building of tat scale and architecture is quite reasonable... before a building has to be build, a series of feasibility studies had to be conducted... and these cost money... and if im not wrong, our library is designed by ken yeang... a famous malaysian architect... singapore by itself has nothing impressive to put herself on the world map... by investing a little more to get ourself known to the world seems reasonable to me... look at esplanade... though it kinda blew it's budget... but now it's rather well known in the world... just like sydney have her opera house... we have our "durian..." for those who dunno... our esplanade had been appearing in many architecture magazines... praising it's architecture... maybe we should take a step back and look at the bigger picture... have u notice how our museum, esplanade and library are situated around the vicinity...? this is because these areas are zoned for arts & performances related facilities... and all these are part of URA master planning to make Singapore a better place...
r3plica SG which libr would u prefer to go to...? a plain looking box...? or... a piece of architecture...?
oxford mushroom SG I would rather they use a small part of the money to subscribe to a whole range of electronic journals so that anyone in the library can access any journal he wants free..
Cindyfeh SG Yars seens to be a better place for the tourist and expats who can afford to attend the esplanades performances and dine in the expensive fullerton 1 eateries. To make Singapore a better place for all of Singaporeans, the gov should return all the reserves to everyone of us so that we can spend the money in esplande etc.
shinta SG eh.. if i remember correctly, got sth to do with increasing spending... increased spending = growth in gdp = improvin the economy
shinta SG for project purposes? back in nyp we have to do research from different media.. n tmd most of the stuff are available online only... no books were written yet.. no wonder i got such low grades tmd
shinta SG economy improve, there will be a highher job supply soon everyone will have jobs of course this is optimism at it's peak over here
M©+square SG Friend. It's offically opened. Of cos we didn't explore the whoe building. But yeah, to general public.
