Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 Central Area, also called the City Area, and informally The City, is the main commercial and financial city centre of Singapore.Located in the south-eastern part of the Central Region, the Central Area consists of eleven constituent planning areas: the Downtown Core, Marina East, Marina South, the Museum Planning Area, Newton, Orchard, Outram, River Valley, Rochor, the Singapore River and ...
Singaporean food critic Wong Ah Yoke visited Bread Street Kitchen twice and "left the table with mixed feelings" on both occasions. In a review for The Straits Times, he remarked that "there are better celebrity-chef restaurants at Marina Bay Sands to dine at" and awarded the food – which he described as "pedestrian fare" – a score of 2.5 out of 5. [3]
The Singapore River was seen as a valley between Fort Canning Hill, to the north side of the river, and Pearl's Hill, to the south side of the river. The roads on either bank of the Singapore River were named River Valley Road — the current River Valley Road and Havelock Road.
Hong Leong Finance Building (Chinese: 丰隆大厦) is a high-rise office skyscraper in the central business district of Singapore. This is the flagship building of Hong Leong Holdings Limited. It is located on 16 Raffles Quay, in the zone of Raffles Place. It is just next to the historic Lau Pa Sat Market.
Maxwell MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the Thomson–East Coast line (TEL) in Singapore. Situated in the Downtown Core and Outram along Neil Road, the station is near the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum, Sri Mariamman Temple and the Maxwell Food Centre. The station is operated by SMRT Trains.
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
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]