Industrial spaces in Singapore don’t often get the spotlight, and most businesses rarely have cause to show off this type of workspace. Most industrial buildings in Singapore that are zoned for ‘Business 1’ use – which includes light manufacturing activities, media and publishing, and media production – are built to be functional first. The design of the frontage, lobby and finishings are often at, or nearly at, the bottom of the list of expenses a developer would include while building a new B1 industrial property. But in Aljunied, one building breaks away from this usual pattern. The property is so eye-catching that it is difficult to miss from the street, and the nine-storey-tall building is clad in corten steel and metal mesh, with a dark, curved façade that sets it apart from the tinted glass and pale tile of the industrial blocks around it. This is 81 Aljunied Road, a rare freehold B1 industrial building that was completed in 2024. It is owned by real...