Bugis Street

Bugis, this is a place of youth, energy and density. Parco shopping zone, Bugis junction and Bugis street form a very unique shopping landscape of the city. I like the idea of introducing a street into the shopping complex like Bugis Parco, of course Bugis junction is also a lovely place, but of all these, I like Bugis Street most.
The intensity of shops in Bugis street form a shopping environment connected, intersected or crisscrossed by small streets. There are new shops coming out every month and you can see renovating works frequently. The wire mashes holding different kinds of sales products make the shops almost translucent. You can see shops behind and just walk through one shop to reach another shop. The atrium create a large void above all the small shops, it helps to ventilate the overall congested shops.
I guess the most attracting point of this place is its intimacy to the people, small scale of the shops with raw and random set up of shop interiors. You may find cheap stuffs and interesting small items in a secret corner. You can also see nail beauty shops with long bench semi-exposed to the ‘streets’. I see people with different expressions on their face, very diversified. It is not a “formal” shopping centre, it is free to express. I can even hear young lady singing the latest song while shopping for cute skirts. If you walk in Paragon, this intimacy will be lost in the large volume of space and clean cut of the shop fronts.
The space is lightened up by the shops while the ‘streets’ are dimmed by the crowd. There is no big brand or high-end shops, it is all about discovery. A good counter proposal to the Parco streets, isn’t it?

Wang Kai