Metropolis - The Search For A Third Place
Can design bring us back to one another? Jenny Wu explores Singapore’s “third places”, everyday spaces between home and work, to see how fostering connections should be the heart of a city’s design.
Metropolis - The Search For A Third Place
Can design bring us back to one another? Jenny Wu explores Singapore’s “third places”, everyday spaces between home and work, to see how fostering connections should be the heart of a city’s design.
Metropolis
What if the spaces between home and work like coffeeshops, void decks and sheltered walkways, were the key to how a city can bring its people together?
LA-based architect Jenny Wu travels to Singapore for the first time on a mission to search for the hidden logic behind a city known for order, but built for connection.
As she moves through public housing blocks,
community nodes and bustling hawker centres, Jenny learns how Singapore’s “third places” – spaces between home and work – can hold memory, movement and meaning. Connection here is not accidental, it’s intentionally built into the design.
Through conversations with architects, planners, and everyday Singaporeans, Jenny begins sketching a conceptual “third place” of her own. But can a space be both functional and deeply personal? Can cities leave room not just to gather, but to truly belong?
In this two-part series, Jenny explores what it means to build for community and how design might quietly shape the way we live together.
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