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Business Times (Singapore). 4 December 1995. </ref> at a cost of $20 million, [1] it opened on 1 August 1972 [1] on the former site of the Pavilion Theatre. [3] Located inside a 25-storey building, [1] the mall was originally named Specialists due to the concentration of medical specialists in its early days. [3]
The mall is part of an integrated development which includes a hotel and an office tower. The hotel is built above the mall and the office tower is built above orchardgateway@emerald, another shopping mall located opposite Orchard Gateway. The hotel consists of 500 rooms and is linked to the office tower by a glass tubular overhead bridge. [3]
The building was designed by Gan Eng Oon, William Lim and Tay Kheng Soon of the Singapore architect firm Design Partnership, now known as DP Architects. [ 4 ] Sited on 1.3 hectares and built to a height of 89 metres, [ 13 ] the Golden Mile Complex is an exemplary type of " megastructure " described by architectural historian, Reyner Banham .
Orchard Towers is an 18-story office building in Singapore located on the corner of Claymore Road and Orchard Road. Construction was completed in 1975. Construction was completed in 1975. The first five floors are a combination of bars and retail outlets with the remainder leased as offices. [ 1 ]
Using the 6-digit postal code to look up the Central Public Lirbary in the OneMap application. Due to Singapore being a small city-state and most buildings having singular, dedicated delivery points, the postal code can be used as a succinct and precise identifier of buildings in Singapore, akin to a geocode.
The whole establishment of the post office in the 1830s consisted of one European clerk, one local writer and a peon. To cope with the increasing volume of mail, the Post Office, then known as the Singapore Post Office, later General Post Office, was moved in 1854 to its own building near the Town Hall by the side of the Singapore River.
ION Orchard (pronounced as I-On), formerly known as the Orchard Turn Development or Orchard Turn Site, is a shopping mall in Singapore, next to Orchard MRT station. It is the retail component of an integrated retail and residential development by Orchard Turn Developments Pte Ltd, a joint venture between CapitaLand and Sun Hung Kai Properties .
The mall has an underpass to Shaw House and ION Orchard. [3] It was the site of Borders' flagship Singapore store until its closure in 2011. [4] Following which, Marks & Spencer became Wheelock Place's main tenant. [5] A new book shop, Zall Bookstore, opened in 2021. [6] The mall houses multiple homegrown retail, food, and lifestyle brands.