The Hive, Singapore

The Hive, also known as the Learning Hub, is a building located in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The S$45 million building was designed by Thomas Heatherwick and completed in 2015.[1] Colloquially, the building is known as the "dim sum basket building" due to its likeness to the steamer baskets used to serve dim sum.[2]

The Hive
External view of The Hive
Alternative namesLearning Hub
General information
LocationJurong West, Singapore
Address52 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639816
Coordinates1.343212°N 103.682586°E / 1.343212; 103.682586
Opening2015
CostS$45 million
OwnerNanyang Technological University
Technical details
Floor count8
Design and construction
ArchitectThomas Heatherwick

The Hive was a finalist for the 2015 World Architecture Festival Commercial Mixed-Use Award in the Future Projects subcategory.[3]

Architecture

Designed by British designer Thomas Heatherwick,[1] The Hive is Heatherwick Studio's first major building in Asia.[4] The building consists of 12 eight-storey towers arranged around a public atrium. The towers taper towards the base and house 56 corner-less classrooms.[5][6] The concrete stair and lift cores between the towers are embedded with 700 drawings from British artist Sara Fanelli that depict images from science, art and literature.[5]

The building has received mixed reviews,[7] with the Architectural Review saying that while "there is much to admire" about the building, "it gave off something of a forlorn car-park aesthetic".[8]

gollark: It's meant to be a Lagrange interpolation implementation, and I think it does *do* that, but the simplification isn't very effective, see, so it just produces these weird obfuscated expressions.
gollark: I had WolframAlpha do that, it seems to be.
gollark: The raw unsimplified output is: `(1 * (((x - 2) / (1 - 2)) * ((x - 3) / (1 - 3)) * ((x - 4) / (1 - 4)))) + (4 * (((x - 1) / (2 - 1)) * ((x - 3) / (2 - 3)) * ((x - 4) / (2 - 4)))) + (9 * (((x - 1) / (3 - 1)) * ((x - 2) / (3 - 2)) * ((x - 4) / (3 - 4)))) + (16 * (((x - 1) / (4 - 1)) * ((x - 2) / (4 - 2)) * ((x - 3) / (4 - 3))))`.
gollark: I hooked it to a JS maths library to do that.
gollark: Oh, it gets cut off, of course.

References
  1. Ng, Andrea (10 March 2015). "NTU unveils new 'dim sum basket building' equipped with classrooms of the future". The Straits Times.
  2. Yang, Calvin (20 October 2015). "NTU launches new facility that features unconventional teaching method". The Straits Times.
  3. Rosenfield, Karissa (22 June 2015). "Shortlist Announced for World Architecture Festival Awards 2015". ArchDaily.
  4. Mark, Laura (10 March 2015). "Heatherwick's Singapore Uni Learning Hub opens". Architects' Journal.
  5. Frearson, Amy (10 March 2015). "Heatherwick's textured-tower university building completes in Singapore". Dezeen.
  6. Hohenadel, Kristin (12 March 2015). "Singapore's New "Learning Hub" Rethinks University Classroom Design in the Internet Age". Slate.
  7. Chew, Hui Min (26 December 2015). "British daily The Telegraph names 3 Singapore buildings in its list of 2015's best (and worst)". The Straits Times.
  8. Williams, Austin (29 April 2015). "Learning Hub in Singapore by Thomas Heatherwick". Architectural Review.


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