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Detail of attap roof thatching An attap dwelling is traditional housing found in the kampongs of Brunei , Indonesia , Malaysia and Singapore . Named after the attap palm , which provides the wattle for the walls, and the leaves with which their roofs are thatched , [ 1 ] these dwellings can range from huts to substantial houses.
The Robina House was demolished to make way for One Shenton Way in 2007 while the UIC Building was demolished to make way for V on Shenton in 2013. [11] [12] The Golden Bridge was demolished in 2016. [13] In March 2012, the building was put up for collective sale with an indicative price of $530 million. [14]
The house was erected around a skeletal structure of tropical hardwood posts and beams, usually chengal. Medium hardwoods, like meranti, were used as floor boards, roof rafters and door and window frames. The roof itself was made of layers of palm frond thatch, while the walls were either made of woven bamboo strips or meranti planks.
Beaulieu House is a bungalow on Beaulieu Road in Sembawang, Singapore. Initially the holiday residence of a local Jewish family, it later served as the residence of Vice-Admiral Geoffrey Layton . Description
Shaw House in June 2024. Shaw House and Shaw Centre is a complex of two neighbouring buildings built by the same developer, Shaw Organisation.Located at the junction of Orchard Road and Scotts Road in Singapore, it features the flagship Lido Cineplex for the Shaw Organisation, a major shopping mall with Isetan as an anchor tenant, and two office buildings.
The sale conditions included the need to conserve and restore the building and integrate it as part of the housing project. The house was eventually converted into the condominium's clubhouse in 2015 and houses amenities such as function rooms and a gym for its condominium residents. [7]
In September 2007, a Goldman Sachs-linked fund bought Chevron House, at a price of S$730 million. This equates to $2,780 per square foot ($29,924/m 2) of net lettable area. This is Goldman Sachs' second major acquisition of an office property in Singapore. [7] It will allow CapitaLand to have a profit of about $150.8 million from the sale of ...
Peranakan Place today fronting the intersection of Emerald Hill Road and Orchard Road. Peranakan Place (also known as Peranakan Place Complex), formerly known as Peranakan Corner, is a row of six two-storey shophouses facing Orchard Road, built around 1902 at the intersection of Emerald Hill Road and Orchard Road in the planning area of Newton in Singapore.