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Modern-day Raffles Place, the financial heart of Singapore. The first underground car park in Singapore was constructed in 1965 under Raffles Place. It was replaced in the 1980s by the Raffles Place MRT station, which opened in December 1987. [14] [15] The station entrance features details from the 1911 facade of the old John Little building. [3]
Raffles City is a large complex located in the Civic District within the Downtown Core of the city-state of Singapore.Occupying an entire city block bounded by Stamford Road, Beach Road, Bras Basah Road and North Bridge Road, it houses two hotels and an office tower over a podium which contains a shopping complex and a convention centre.
The building's entrance is flanked by two Chinese lions sculpted from pre-cast stone. At the time of opening, the building's basement housed the bank's safe deposit boxes and a car park, while the Bank of China occupied the lowest three and top three floors of the building.
Like the adjacent City Hall station, Raffles Place has two platform levels to facilitate its role as an interchange between the NSL and EWL. [44] Before the MRT eastern extension to Tanah Merah station and the Marina Bay southern extension on 4 November 1989, through services operated from the Yishun to Lakeside stations.
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 ]
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Raffles City is a group integrated complexes comprising retail, commercial, hotels and convention centre space developed by Singapore-based developer CapitaLand.
One Raffles Place is a skyscraper in Downtown Core, Singapore. The development comprises two towers and a podium . The 280 m (920 ft) tall Tower One and the 38-storey Tower Two house offices, while the podium contains retail space.