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Aerial perspective of Singapore's Chinatown Topdown look of a carpark near Club Street Bukit Pasoh Road is located on a hill that in the 1830s marked the western boundary of the colonial town. Singapore's Chinatown is known as Niu che shui [ b ] in Mandarin , Gû-chia-chúi in Hokkien , and Ngàuh-chē-séui in Cantonese - all of which mean ...
38 Oxley Road is an eight-bedroom two-storey bungalow located near Orchard Road, Singapore. The house was built in the late 19th century and was the residence of the first prime minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, from the 1940s until his death in 2015. [1] The first meeting of the People's Action Party (PAP) occurred in the basement. [1]
Aerial view of the old Supreme Court building (foreground left), new Supreme Court building (middle) and City Hall (foreground right). The Former City Hall building in Singapore is a national monument gazetted on 14 February 1992.
Aerial perspective of Anderson Bridge over the Singapore River. Anderson Bridge was built under oversight of Municipal Engineer Robert Peirce with the intention to replace the overloaded Cavenagh Bridge as the link between the government administrative area in the Civic District on the northern bank and the Commercial District (now Raffles Place) on the southern bank of the Singapore River.
Aerial panorama of Singapore's Downtown Core. The Old Supreme Court building is located in the middle of the panorama. Dome of the old Supreme Court Building at night (2011) On 1 April 1937, Sir Shenton Whitelegge Thomas, Governor of the Straits Settlements [2] laid the original foundation stone of the Supreme Court Building.
Toa Payoh New Town is Singapore's second oldest satellite town and the first to be built by the Housing and Development Board after the development of Queenstown by the Singapore Improvement Trust in the late 1950s. Before its time as a residential town, Toa Payoh was a squatter district, with a prominent agricultural heritage in the area.
Shophouses in Singapore Shophouses in Singapore The old style shophouses are shops with one or more stories of living accommodation above it. These shophouses typically have a so-called five foot way which is a covered walkway located in front of the shop doors, with the upper floors shielding the pedestrians from the elements.