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Like the adjacent City Hall station, Raffles Place has two platform levels to facilitate its role as an interchange between the NSL and EWL. [44] Before the MRT eastern extension to Tanah Merah station and the Marina Bay southern extension on 4 November 1989, through services operated from the Yishun to Lakeside stations.
City Hall MRT station is an underground Singapore Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) interchange station on the North–South line (NSL) and East–West line (EWL). Situated in the Downtown Core district, it is underneath Stamford Road near the road junctions with North Bridge Road and St Andrew's Road.
A sheltered linkway at One Raffles Link and a temporary pedestrian bridge were constructed to facilitate movement between City Hall and Suntec City. [ 13 ] Through a public poll conducted from 26 March to 9 May 2004 to replace its working name "Convention Centre", [ 14 ] "Esplanade" garnered more votes at 49% against "War Memorial" at 41%. [ 3 ]
The tower is located adjacent to the Bank of China Building [5] and faces the Singapore River. It is a class-A office building and houses the offices of several multi-national companies. [citation needed] The development had a net floor area of 46,060 m 2 (495,800 sq ft), as of 30 June 2007, [6] and has direct access to Raffles Place MRT station.
Raffles Place is the centre of the Financial District of Singapore and is located south of the mouth of the Singapore River. [1] It was first planned and developed in the 1820s as Commercial Square to serve as the hub of the commercial zone of Singapore in Raffles Town Plan. It was renamed Raffles Place in 1858 and is now the site of a number ...
The building is near other skyscrapers, such as One Raffles Quay, The Sail @ Marina Bay and Ocean Building, [3] all of which are around 100 metres away. [4] It has a direct link to Raffles Place MRT station via an air-conditioned underground mall. [5] The building is a Grade A office building, and its basement contains retail space. [6]
Raffles City is a large complex located in the Civic District within the Downtown Core of the city-state of Singapore. Occupying an entire city block bounded by Stamford Road , Beach Road , Bras Basah Road and North Bridge Road , it houses two hotels and an office tower over a podium which contains a shopping complex and a convention centre.
The Former City Hall building in Singapore is a national monument gazetted on 14 February 1992. It can be found in front of the historical Padang and adjacent to the Former Supreme Court of Singapore , it was designed and built by the architects of the Singapore Municipal Commission , A. Gordans and F. D. Meadows from 1926 to 1929.