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AN 'architectural icon' will soon rise from the National University of Singapore (NUS) Kent Ridge campus.
Designed to be the 'new flagship' building of the NUS Business School, it will feature a glass facade and reed-like columns, symbolising 'deep flexibility and perennial stability'.
Named the Mochtar Riady Building after the founder of the Indonesian Lippo Group, the $45-million building is slated to be completed by 2009.
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The Lippo group also gave $6 million to create two professorships.
On Monday, Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam joined Mr Riady and NUS leaders in a groundbreaking ceremony for the new building.
Mr Tharman said the new building marked a new chapter in the life the NUS Business School.
'I'am sure that the school will capitalise on the new facilities to build up its quality to new heights to become a leading school globally,' he said.
Eight-storey tall and occupying 16,000 square metre, the Mochtar Riady Building will feature a central five-storey atrium - a 'living-room' for people to interact.
Designed by Australia's Cox Architects & Planners and Singapore firm, Design-Environment Group, the building will have a variegated facade, shealthed in varying hues at different times of the day.
Started in 1965, the NUS Business School has more than 27,000 alumni.
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