punishment of the innocent

I really couldn't resist posting this picture and letting a crime of architecture go unreported. With all these talk of porous facades, organic spaces and the building being a friendly urban intervention, it seems that Ken Yeang had forgotten to design one of the facades of the new National Library and left it as a gargantuan blank wall which faces the block of flats on the adjacent Bras Basah Complex. It is as if the architect wanted to punish the residents for some reasons unknown, subjecting them to a view of unredeemable boredom that is broken only by the glare of the evening sun.