Singapore Indoor Stadium
— — a roof that lifts as if the water were holding it.
Not only on a wall.
“Kenzo Tange's curved roof rising from the Kallang waterfront, the line of it answered by the river on one side and the National Stadium dome on the other. Twelve thousand seats inside, opened in 1989, and still the room every touring act in Asia wants to play. From the bridge at night the roof reads almost like a sail. — from the studio
Singapore Indoor Stadium, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
The Singapore Indoor Stadium stands on the north bank of the Kallang Basin, just east of the city centre, as part of the Kallang sports precinct that includes the National Stadium and the OCBC Aquatic Centre. Designed by the Japanese architect Kenzo Tange and opened on 31 December 1989, the building seats around 12,000 for concerts and indoor sports. It is operated as part of the Singapore Sports Hub. The MRT station at Stadium on the Circle Line drops you about three minutes from the main entrance.
Tange's design uses a long, low curved roof that rises from the waterfront like a folded plate, supported on a ring of concrete buttresses. The form is consciously responsive to the Kallang Basin — the building reads differently from the water than it does from the road. Inside, the bowl is steeply raked so that even the back row of 12,000 keeps a clear sightline to centre stage. The exterior is largely white aluminium cladding, which holds the equatorial light without glare.
Take the Circle Line to Stadium MRT; the venue is signposted from the station exit. Event tickets are sold through Ticketmaster Singapore and at the box office at Gate 7. The Sports Hub precinct around the stadium is open to the public; the waterfront promenade is one of the better evening walks in the city, and the views back across the basin to the city skyline are best about thirty minutes after sunset. The stadium hosts both touring concerts and regional sporting events year-round.