Land was never seen as a limited resource in Singapore, but as a vast potential to be released. Land reclamation has added 25% to Singapore’s land territory during the last century and further extensions into the sea are still being planned and built. Now, thecelebrated Singapore model represents a paradigm of urban development inextricably tied to the practice of continuous transformation and reclamation of land. The sequence of sections through the island at two points in time,1924 and 2012, visualises the scale, the volume and the territorial logic of land construction.