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Dream Storeys

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6H 43min
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Short stories

What if you could dream up any building you like? What would it be? How would constructing it change our lives?

A shopping mall self-destructs, and a single mother vanishes. A tree house for orphans and old folks is torn apart by an act of mercy. The Singapore Flyer is reinvented as a political prison. In this collection of nine tales, Clara Chow examines an alternative Singaporean landscape—one that exists only on paper—and the people we might be in it. A former newspaper correspondent, she interviews nine architects about chimeric structures and sets short stories in them. A hybrid of journalism and fiction, Dream Storeys documents the voices of urban visionaries, while taking their ideas into inventive, evocative new territories.

Architects featured

Yen Yen Wu • Chang Jiat-Hwee • Nirmal Kishnani • Lai Chee Kien • Michael Leong • Mark Wee • Olivia Tang • Joshua Comaroff • Tan Kok Hiang

© 2016 by Clara Chow. Published in paper format in Singapore by Ethos Books, recorded by Storyside 2020.

© 2020 Storyside (Audiobook): 9789179315443
© 2023 Ethos Books (Ebook): 9789811408939

Release date

Audiobook: 7 February 2020
Ebook: 5 June 2023

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