Location: Singapore.

Architect: WOHA Architects.

Stadium MRT Station was commissioned through the Marina Line Architectural Design Competition jointly organized by the Singapore Land Transport Authority and the Singapore Institute of Architects. It is designed to enhance the urban quality of the surrounding areas and provide world-class transport facilities. It has an at-grade, open-air concourse and plaza to accommodate surge crowds from the Singapore Indoor Stadium, Kallang Theatre and the National Stadium, and to create opportunities for the surrounding developments to create and enhance external, ground-level activities. The MRT plaza is open-ended and inspired by landscape forms and the art of Richard Serra. It contrasts a linear element against a curved one, creating a shimmering, glassy grotto below the opaque massive elements above.

Pedestrian movement dramatizes the perception of the space, and a central skylight creates an attractive, day-lit platform. The ribbed aluminium cladding system was custom designed to create an ambiguous material, sometimes soft like fabric, sometimes hard like stone, and sometimes metallic, that changes with the quality of light and the time of day. The grey-stepped, curved forms preserve a memory of Singapore’s National Stadium.