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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.
16 Collyer Quay, formerly CALTEX HOUSE and Hitachi Tower, [5] [2] is a 37-storey, 166 m (545 ft), skyscraper in the central business district of Singapore. It is located on 16 Collyer Quay , in the zone of Raffles Place , near Chevron House , Change Alley , [ 6 ] Tung Centre , and The Arcade, all of which are roughly 100 metres away. [ 7 ]
One Marina Boulevard was designed by DP Architects, and completed in 2004. Other firms involved in the development include Singapore Labour Foundation Management Services, Samsung Corporation, Beca Carter Hollings and Ferner, Hyder Consulting, Arup Singapore, Davis Langdon & Seah Singapore, Sika Services AG, Building Systems, and National Trades Union Congress.
The Pearl Bank Apartments was the first all-housing project to be undertaken in the Urban Renewal Department of the Housing and Development Board's Sale of Sites programme. It was the programme's third sale in 1969, aimed at rejuvenating the Central Area and providing more residential options for the middle and upper-middle families. [ 2 ]
The skyscraper-building boom continued during the 1990s and 2000s, with 30 skyscrapers at least 140 m (459 ft) tall, many of them residential towers, constructed from 1990 through 2008. Since 2000, there has been a sharp increase in the number of skyscrapers under construction in the city area, particularly in the Marina Bay district.
The Pinnacle@Duxton is a 50-storey residential development in Singapore's city center, next to the business district. [1] All seven connected towers are collectively the world's tallest public residential buildings, and featuring the two longest sky gardens ever built on skyscrapers, at 500m each. [2] [3] [4] [5]
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 .
[1] [2] In December 2016, Forbes recognized ION Orchard as one of the top shopping malls in Singapore. [3] The Orchard Residences, the residential component of the development, is a high-rise residential condominium. It was completed along with the shopping mall under the same developer, manager and owner in 2010. [4]