Fig. National Library Board Singapore. Scheme B. The spiral wrapper gives way to singular conical container. The array of supporting beams forms the roof detached from the walls. The walls of the cone twist open to form a formal grand entrance on Victoria Road. The conical wall was meant to evoke the purity and simplicity of temple structures of Eastern and Chinese traditions. The floating roof was meant to evoke the intricacies and ornamental richness of the timber structural systems of traditional Chinese architecture. The weakness was that the singular monumental entry was associated with a mysterious, elitist entry to the inner sanctum