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Singapore's first "green roof" at the Green Pavilion. The two new blocks of offices and classroom in the upgraded Tanglin Core area are known as the Botany Centre. They house the: Library of Botany and Horticulture (including the Public Reference Centre); the Singapore Herbarium (International acronym: Herb. SING), housing 750,000 specimens; [18]
Traditional architecture in Singapore includes vernacular Malay houses, local hybrid shophouses and black and white bungalows, a range of places of worship reflecting the ethnic and religious diversity of the city-state as well as colonial civic and commercial architecture in European Neoclassical, gothic, palladian and renaissance styles.
Burkill Hall in Singapore Botanic Gardens, the oldest surviving 19th century Anglo-Malay Plantation building, forerunner to the black and white bungalow. In Malaysia and Singapore, bungalows such as these were built from the 19th century until World War II for the wealthy expatriate families, the leading commercial firm as well as the Public Works Department and the British Armed Forces. [2]
STPI is a not-for-profit organisation established with the support of the Ministry of Information, Communication and the Arts (presently known as the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth – MCCY), Singapore Tourism Board, and Singapore Totalisator Board, [3] in line with the government’s Renaissance City Plan to position the nation as the prime arts hub of Southeast Asia.
The visual art of Singapore, or Singaporean art, refers to all forms of visual art in or associated with Singapore throughout its history and towards the present-day. The history of Singaporean art includes the indigenous artistic traditions of the Malay Archipelago and the diverse visual practices of itinerant artists and migrants from China, the Indian subcontinent, and Europe.
At the time of its opening, the S.E.A. Aquarium was the world's largest, by total water volume (until overtaken by Chimelong Ocean Kingdom in Hengqin, China), [4] containing nearly 45,000,000 litres (9,900,000 imp gal; 12,000,000 US gal) of water, and housing more than 100,000 individual marine, brackish, and freshwater animals belonging to over 800 species. [1]
The house was featured in a 2006 book, Black and White: The Singapore House, 1898–1941, under the heading "Oldest Black and White House?". However, the heading of the section led to the misconception that the Atbara House was the first Black and White House in Singapore, despite it only being a "close relative" of the Black and White Houses. [7]
Image Title Location Year Artist / Designer Collection Notes “创” Chuan: 9 Empress Place Singapore 179556 : Joseph McNally: Others [1]2 X 2 II: 138 Market Street : Antony Gormley