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A view of South Beach from Nicoll Highway, Singapore. South Beach is a commercial and residential complex located on Beach Road in the Downtown Core of Singapore It is composed of a hotel tower managed by JW Marriott Hotels, an office tower, shops and residences.
The area encompasses the Frankel and Opera Estates and their names have sometimes been used interchangeably to refer to the approximate same area. The planning subzone area of Siglap, as defined by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), is confusingly and inaccurately referred to as the small strip of land between Victoria Junior College and ...
Pagoda Street was named after the pagoda-like gopuram of Sri Mariamman Temple, the largest and oldest Hindu temple in Singapore, located on the South Bridge Road end of the street. [1] Due to Sri Mariamman Temple, the street was called kit ling a le pai au in Hokkien , meaning "behind the kling place of worship " where Kling is an old reference ...
The peninsular formed from the late 1980s to early 1990s is known as Tuas South, while the land currently being reclaimed to the southeast of Tuas Jetty is known as the Tuas View Extension. On the 2nd of January, 1998, the Malaysia–Singapore Second Link that links Singapore to Malaysia was opened to traffic via Tuas on the Singapore side.
It was completed in 2008. The first tenants have moved into Central Park Tower in July 2008. Residents moved into Marina Bay Tower a few weeks later. The structure of The Sail is 245 m (804 ft) with 70 storeys and is one of Singapore's tallest condominia/apartment buildings. This development offers panoramic city view of Marina Bay and the sea.
The design was influenced by the linear city concepts of Le Corbusier and Arturo Soria y Mata. [15] The step-terraced profile of the Golden Mile Complex offers the occupants of the apartments on the upper floors panoramic view of the sea and sky. Every apartment has its own balcony. The crown houses two-storey maisonette penthouses.
Keong Saik Road was once a red light area in Chinatown in the 1960s, but has since been transformed into a street with many boutique hotels. Under the Raffles Plan of Singapore, Chinatown originally was a division of colonial Singapore where Chinese immigrants tended to reside.
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 ...