About the Artwork Swirling surrounds is an interactive artwork best seen from within. Created with the strength of a Fibonacci spiral and swirling fish, the artwork references our multicultural society in which we live. Notions of culture and community, collaboration and consensus are fundamental aspects of this artwork which uses a school of fish as...
The Cascade, 2010Nola Farman
About the Artwork The Cascade is a site-specific, interactive installation. It consists of a series of painted stainless steel arcs with jets of water that cascades downwards onto stepped terraces. The arcs represent in solid form, the continuation of the flow of water. These colourful arcs capture the playful effects of water and light, which...
From Little Things, Big Things Grow, 2010B. Jane Cowie
About the Artwork Car parks are often unusual locations for any artistic adornments. However located at the basement car park of Mapletree Business City, From Little Things, Big Things Grow is a glass and metal wall piece of a maple tree complete with falling leaves and a reflective pond. The maple leaf motif symbolises growth,...
Circle of Life, 2010 Coral Lowry
About the Artwork Circle of Life is a fascinating melee of spirals, stripes and spots that disregards its confines to the wall, pond and planter on which it appends. It is art inspired by the bustling underwater activities, and curious forms in and around coral atolls. Circle of Life’s two-dimensional wall pieces create the surroundings...
Rain Tree, 2010 Kim Jongku
About the Artwork Positioned at the main entrance of Mapletree Business City, Rain Tree stands at 5.25 metres and is the first sculpture that visitors will encounter when they enter the integrated business hub. Rain Tree offers an aesthetic experience through time, contrasting natural and manmade elements. Streams of water sprout from the tips of its...
The Conch, 2010 FARM
About the Artwork The Conch is a stainless steel outdoor sculpture designed by Singapore art collective, Farm. Surrounded by all four blocks of Mapletree Business City, The Conch stands out as a centrepiece and is visible from every floor of the integrated business hub. Employing wave-like, organic forms, the 88-stem The Conch is conceived to...
Silver Lining 1 & 2, 2010Jason Lim
About the Artwork Silver Lining 1 & 2 is a two-part stainless steel artwork that is made up of 10 hanging pieces and eight pool pieces. While spending time studying numerous images of coral atolls, Singaporean artist, Jason Lim observed that stunning skylines and dramatic cloud formations usually accompany these marine forms. This subsequently led...
Humbly on Hills, 2010 Lim Shing Ee
About the Artwork Humbly on Hills is a composition of cheery and colourful organic forms with large, mushroom-like “hills” as bases. It is made up of eight wall pieces and five pool pieces, ranging from the smallest with a height of 0.63 metre to the largest towering at 11.5 metres. In delightful shapes, the painted...
Wave, 2010Baet Yeok Kuan
About the Artwork Wave is a colossal 16-metre long artwork that sits at the Open Plaza of Mapletree Business City. The Open Plaza is the largest gathering place that is frequented by the local working community. Wave captures, for its onlookers, the natural beauty of the sea through dynamic undulations that depict surging currents and...
Elliptical Pavillion, 2017Dan Graham
About the Artwork Elliptical Pavillion explores the relationship between artwork, viewer, and landscape. The two way-mirror glass surface, a material which, relative to sunlight, is simultaneously reflective and transparent, superimposes images of the spectators and the landscape onto each other. The images merge and a “mirage” of overlapping bodies and landscape is created, making the...
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