Largest Lantern Made Of Handpainted Plastic Bottles
In the last 20 years, Akira Takahashi has built more than half a dozen record-breaking super-sized lanterns. His latest is for Radin Mas SMC’s Mid-Autumn Festival celebration at the Redhill market and hawker centre on 29 Sep 2012. For several months he has been collecting used plastic cooking oil bottles and painting each one individually. They were assembled into a ... Read More »
Largest Human Formation Of A Pink Ribbon
The pink ribbon human formation record was broken on 29 Sep 2012 at the Waterfront Promenade in Marina Bay. Health Promotion Board organised the event to raise awareness of breast cancer and to mark the 10th anniversary of the national breast screening programme. 2,320 people holding pink umbrellas formed the image. Read More »
Largest Athapookalam
The Indian Malayalee community and Jurong Green CC celebrated Onam at the Jurong Lake Park on 23 Sep 2012. In connection with the festival, an athapookalam, an art collage of fresh flowers was carried out in the traditional Indian design. 1,300kg of flowers were use to make the flower bed, measuring 11m in diameter and 97 sq m. The event ... Read More »
Largest Chalk Art
To tie in with its display of treasures from the Aga Khan Museum, the Asian Civilisation Museum invited members of the public to help it break the Singapore chalk art record. Over 200 visitors got down on their knees to chalk up colourful Islamic-style geometric patterns on the ACM courtyard on 8 Sep 2012. The artwork measured 12m by 16.8m. The ... Read More »
Largest Display Of Paper Lilies
Students of Outram Secondary School folded origami lilies to honour their teachers. On 31 Aug 2012, 3,600 lilies were displayed on the floor of the sports hall measuring 9m by 5.3m, with the words ‘OSS Spirit – 2012 Happy Teachers’ Day’. The display also included wrapped bouquets of 10 long stem lilies each, which were later presented to the 90 teachers in ... Read More »
