10 years in the making, the brand new Bras Basah station of the Circle line designed by Woha opened last week. Rising from the platform, one arrives at the bottom of a monumental void bathed in fluttering light refracted through the thin sheet of water hovering above the opening on top. The sky beyond this sheet of water is slightly obscured but signs of the outside world is reassuringly present. Ascending from the bottom of the void, the angles of the various elements play off each other, the retaining walls, light wells, thresholds,escalators, light and darkness, suspended in a tense composition of geometric forms. Cylindrical structural beams fly across the void, punching through the retaining walls, clad in a field of pale staggered rectangular panels. The bold angular geometry is reminiscent of 60s brutalist architecture, in its matter-of-factly straightforwardness, its muscularity and monumentality. There is a quiet restraint in the use of materials and patterns, yet one can still find within the spaces of the station a palette rich in nuances and subtle textures.
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