Folded Tower is a 32-storey residential building in Tanjong Pagar, designed by OMA Singapore in collaboration with local practice Kerry Hill Architects. We were commissioned to photograph the completed building over three days, working in the early morning and late afternoon to capture the building's relationship to its dense urban context.
The brief was unusual: avoid the heroic exterior shots that architectural photography usually defaults to. Instead, we focused on threshold moments, the spaces where the building meets the city, and the texture of materials at human scale.
The building never tries to dominate. It folds itself into the street.
We shot mostly with a Hasselblad H6D-100C and the 50mm and 100mm lenses. For the interior threshold spaces we worked with a 4×5 large format camera and Portra 400 film, scanned and graded to match the digital files. We waited for overcast mornings whenever possible. The light is softer and the building reads more honestly.
