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According to Davison, the building stood "in sharp contrast" to the Crescent Flats, which was "purpose-built to make the most of the sea breezes by way of natural ventilation." He argued that it "can be seen as representative of a gradual shift towards a more European style of residential architecture that took place in Singapore between the ...
Wheelock Properties (Singapore) Limited was taken over by its parent company Wheelock & Co. [6] and was delisted from the SGX on 18 October 2018, becoming Wheelock Properties (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.. Wheelock & Co. and its subsidiary The Wharf (Holdings) 's formed a spin-off listed company Wharf Real Estate Investment Company (Wharf REIC) for ...
HDB residences in Bishan town. Public housing in Singapore is subsidised, built, and managed by the government of Singapore.Starting in the 1930s, the country's first public housing was built by the Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT) in a similar fashion to contemporaneous British public housing projects, and housing for the resettlement of squatters was built from the late 1950s.
Build to order (BTO) is a real estate development scheme enacted by the Housing and Development Board (HDB), a statutory board responsible for Singapore's public housing. First introduced in 2001, it was a flat allocation system that offered flexibility in timing and location for owners buying new public housing in the country.
One of Singapore's oldest housing estates, the Tanglin Halt estate in Queenstown will be redeveloped over the next ten to fifteen years with 5,500 new Housing and Development Board (HDB) flats. Located on the site of the former neighbourhood centre, a 40-storey integrated development will house retail shops, a new hawker centre, and a market.
This is a list of places in Singapore based on the planning areas and their constituent subzones as designated by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). Based on the latest URA Master Plan in 2019, the country is divided into 5 regions , which are further subdivided into 55 planning areas , and finally subdivided into a total of 332 subzones.
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Punggol 21 was a new model for housing, which would feature a new concept in housing as a model for new towns in the 21st century. It would have a mix of private houses and high-grade HDB flats grouped into smaller, distinctly designed estates. Each estate would contain between 1,200 and 2,800 units, with a common neighbourhood green.