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The complex's second tower, One Raffles Place Tower Two, was designed by Paul Noritake Tange. The 38-storey tower houses 360,000 square feet (33,000 m 2 ) of offices, and is designed to be environmentally friendly, with fittings such as solar panels and rainwater collection systems.
Raffles Place is one of the first nine underground MRT stations designated as a Civil Defence (CD) shelter. As a CD shelter, the station has to be structurally reinforced against bomb attacks with layers of earth-backed, air-backed and airtight walls and slabs.
City Hall station is one of two stations which are paired cross-platform interchanges between the NSL and EWL. From the north, the station is after Bugis on the EWL and after Dhoby Ghaut station on the NSL. Both lines continue and interchange at Raffles Place station. The official station code is NS25/EW13. [37]
Raffles Place c.1910. The area become the location for well-known retail stores in the 19th century. John Little, Singapore's oldest department store, was established on 30 August 1842 on Commercial Square. [7]
EW14 NS26 Raffles Place Merlion Park [ a ] is a famous Singapore landmark and a major tourist attraction, located at One Fullerton , Singapore , near the Central Business District (CBD). The Merlion is a mythical creature with a lion's head and the body of a fish that is widely used as a mascot and national personification of Singapore.
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]
It is located on 16 Raffles Quay, in the zone of Raffles Place. It is just next to the historic Lau Pa Sat Market. There are many skyscrapers near the building, such as One Raffles Quay, 6 Raffles Quay, [3] Robinson Towers, John Hancock Tower, and AIA Tower, all of which are less than 100 metres away. [4]
One Raffles Quay (Chinese: 莱佛士码头一号) is an office building complex located at Raffles Place, the central business district of Singapore. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, One Raffles Quay (ORQ) consists of the 50-storey North Tower and the 29-storey South Tower, totalling about 1.3 million square feet of office space. The building was ...