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After Singapore's independence in 1965, the government adopted new road-naming policies as part of its nation-building effort. [11] A Street Naming Advisory Committee was appointed in February 1967 by the Minister of Finance, [12] and priority was given to local names and Malay names, while names of prominent figures and British places and people were discouraged. [11]
Modelled after the original restaurant in the United Kingdom, Bread Street Kitchen opened on 23 June 2015 and was Gordon Ramsay's first restaurant in Singapore as well as his second Asian venture. [1] It is located at the first floor of The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands. The restaurant has a seating capacity of 149, and its interiors were ...
The PUB Building, located near Singapore's main shopping belt of Orchard Road, was built to accommodate several departments of the Public Utilities Board which had outgrown its office space in City Hall. [2] The building was the result of an architectural design competition. In July 1971, a contest to design PUB's corporate headquarters was ...
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 .
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Clarke Quay is also the name of a road along the quay, part of which has since been converted into a pedestrian mall. Clarke Street, located next to Clarke Quay, was officially named in 1896, and was originally two streets known simply as East Street and West Street in north Kampong Malacca.
Cantonment Road (Chinese: 广东民路) is a road located directly on the boundary between Bukit Merah and the Central Area PAs of Outram and the Downtown Core in Singapore. The road starts at its junction with Outram Road , Eu Tong Sen Street and New Bridge Road in the north and ends at its junction with Keppel Road in the south.
The street was named Club Street due to its abundance of Chinese clubs in early Singapore history. [1] Clubs such as the Chinese Weekly Entertainment Kee Lam Club, a Straits-Chinese club formed in 1891, Chui Lan Teng Club, mainly for Chinese businessman to socialise and the Ee Hoe Hean Club, an exclusive prestigious Chinese club in the 1920s are located at the street which leads to competitive ...