Summary

• The proposed publication comprises more than 180 black-and-white photographs of 27 SIT and HDB estates and precincts that have disappeared from our country.

Princess Estate, Blk 39 Forfar House. 2000

• The film negatives, taken over a period of 25 years, will have to be digitized in high-resolution for print.
• Albert and Rochore House, Alexandra Estate, Boon Tiong/Tiong Bahru Road, Cantonment Road Estate, Covent Garden Estate, Duchess Estate (Queenstown), East Coast Road, Ellenborough Market/Tew Chew Street, Geylang Serai, Hillview Estate, Kallang Airport Estate, Kampong Silat Estate, Kim Pong Road, Kim Tian Road, Neo Tiew Estate, Outram Hill, Outram Park, Owen Road (Norfolk/Tasek Utara Estate), Pickering Street Estate, Princess Elizabeth Park, Princess Estate (Queenstown), Punggol Road/Buangkok South Farmway 1, Seletar Estate, Seletar West Farmway 6, Stamford Estate, Taman Jurong, Winstedt Court. 
• Each estate is accompanied by a brief writeup of its history as well as chapter dividers made up of collected postcards, HDB eviction notices, vintage maps and other memorabilia. These are all related to each estate. 
• Every dollar you contribute is important to the book. We are trying to get the best local designers to depict these architectural scenes in the most aesthetically pleasing way. Early layout pages by Do Not Design: 

What We Need & What You Get

Cost Breakdown: 

• Design = $SGD 5000 
• Printing = $SGD 10000 
• Misc (Shipping/materials) = $SGD 300

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• All funds will be directed solely to the creation of this publication and into your hands. 
• As perks, we will be printing 5R and 8R Silver Gelatin Prints on Ilford Baryta Fibre-based paper. 

Some may call this junk...

• Though the book is not intended to be an exhaustive pictorial record of the subject, it aims to fill a gap in Singapore’s visual and architectural heritage, specifically in the documentation of vanished public housing estates that have fallen since the mid 1990s. 

• Some of these estates reveal a particular housing typology like the 3 or 4-storey walk up flat, the 7 or 9-storey high-rise flat and later the (singular) 14-storey Forfar House in Queenstown. Other estates reveal the staid formalism of HDB’s first blocks with common corridors. Though these buildings have a distinct architectural style or visual identity that belong to the past now, the photographs are still a vital window into the receding particulars of a time and place in Singapore.

• Do help us spread the word! We are not architects or doyens but this small effort represents a salute to our heritage and a paean to home.

Taman Jurong. 1996