LucasFilm building in Singapore (2014)
In the early 2000s, fans of the Star Wars franchise in Singapore were greeting by a new building that looked oddly familiar. If they looked at the building from the right vantage point, it looked like the Sand Crawler vehicle featured in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Despite the rustic vehicle it is built to resemble from the movies, the building’s nine stories, designed by Andrew Bromberg of Aedas, are arranged around a bright, spacious courtyard filled with lush greenery and water features. Lucas’ Industrial Lights and Magic division sold the Sandcrawler building to Blackstone Real Estate in 2021, and Disney shut down the Singapore studio as a cost-saving measure in 2023, so it is no longer associated with the prolific studio. Despite its change in ownership, the building still gleams as an icon of Star Wars come to life.
