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Another Rand development

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Right, so Singapore keeps being filled with all these new condominiums with names that have zero sense of place - they’re just generic sounding names such as “Palm Fronds” or “Sun Island” (I’m making these up, of course). So why not create one named the Fountainhead? I can see the ad copy now:

Celebrate your achievement at the Fountainhead. There are no second-hand souls here, no obligations to the community. Designed by a brilliant architect, the Fountainhead is near to independent, non-state-controlled schools. Freehold.

But I suppose the market for ironic literary references in housing developments must be tiny.