Consumer culture and architecture are inextricably linked. Consumer culture is an indisputably dominant feature of contemporary society and architecture is a prominent part of it. Architecture can be defined as a commodity since it can be bought, sold, rented, constructed, demolished and renovated in post-recession Singapore, the cycle is even more specific: architecture {space} is produced, bought, used, upgraded, then sold en bloc, so that some other new architecture can be commissioned, produced, produced, bought, used, upgraded and so on. The consumption of space in this instance is primarily quantifiable as the number of square metres or floor area one buys. Besides this, one also buys into a lifestyle provided by the `design` of the buildings and environment of such speculative architecture: architecture as an object of consumption in the formation of identities and subjectivities.
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