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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.
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 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.
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]
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 ]
Six Battery Road, completed in 1984, was designed by P&T Architects & Engineers Ltd. and RSP Architects Planners & Engineers(Pte) Ltd..The development involved several firms, including CapitaLand Commercial Limited, Clover Properties Private Limited, Hazama Gumi, CapitaLand Limited, Lighting Design Partnership, Meinhardt (Singapore) Private Limited, and Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP.
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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]