page_title: Sculpture Square
section_title: Façade
hierarchical_section_title: Sculpture Square / Building / Façade
caption_attribution_description: English: Exterior of Objectifs on 2nd February. On-going exhibition was Humble Dance of an Atheist by Toh Hun Ping.
context_page_description: Sculpture Square was a non-profit arts organization located at 155 and 161 Middle Road, Singapore. It was founded by sculptor Sun Yu-Li in 1995 as a venue with the focus on exhibiting and fostering ‘3-dimensional’ and other forms of sculptural arts in Singapore.
  The venue officially opened to the public in March 1999 with the exhibition Provocative Things: A Three Dimensional Experience in Singapore. The organization also often held annual ‘Sculpture Carnival’ events for the public, which was mainly targeted towards children and young adults in order to hone their interest in the arts.
  Sculpture Square Ltd. vacated its premises in August 2014. Since its closure in 2014, the buildings have been occupied by another local arts organization, Objectifs – the Centre for Photography and Films.
context_section_description: Sculpture Square primarily featured an orange exterior paint job with white windows during its operation. However, the façade of the building was known to be occasionally painted over with mural arts, depending on the theme of the ongoing exhibition. One example is the Ghost: The Body at the Turn of the Century, where the exterior of the building was painted grey, with black graffiti marks to fit the theme.
  In the current modern context where the surrounding high-rise buildings overshadow other smaller buildings in the city-scape, the striking bright colours of Sculpture Square helped the building to stand out from its towering neighbors, a rare opportunity for a building to express itself in the city. Today, under the operation of Objectifs, the building is painted primarily in yellow with green windows, which is a reversion of colour scheme back to what it was commonly recognised by during the chapel's days as a motor workshop. Throughout the historical timeline of the chapel gallery, the external appearance, the interior and the chapel's surroundings changed in accordance to the function of the building. However, the physical architecture of the building is seemingly left untouched and retains the original gothic style when it was first built.
caption: Current facade of the building
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