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Tiong Bahru is a housing estate and subzone region located within Bukit Merah planning area, in the Central Region of Singapore.Tiong Bahru was constructed in the 1920s by the Singapore Improvement Trust, the predecessor to the Housing Development Board (HDB) and an entity of the British colonial authority providing mass public housing in Singapore and is the oldest housing estate in Singapore.
The building was one of the first public housing blocks in Singapore built with an air-raid shelter. [3] However, the air-raid shelter ended up being seldom used, as Tiong Bahru was not targeted during the Japanese occupation of Singapore. [1] The building also houses the Hua Bee Restaurant. [3] [4]
Developed by UOL Limited, Tiong Bahru Plaza and the adjacent 20-storey office tower, Central Plaza, were completed in late 1994 as the first shopping mall in Tiong Bahru and Bukit Merah. Like a typical suburban mall at that time, it had a cinema, a department store, a supermarket, a food court, and more than 100 specialty shops.
Housing built by SIT, at Tiong Bahru, Singapore. In the early 20th century, Singapore was experiencing rapid expansion and development, and the local government was unable to handle significant town improvement schemes. A 1907 report by a public health commissioner called for the construction of back lanes to facilitate the removal of human waste.
From the early 1930s, the SIT subsequently started planning larger housing estates on the outskirts of the Central Area, and after being unable to encourage the private development of such estates, constructed the first estate, Tiong Bahru, from 1936. [4] Subsequently, the SIT began focusing more on public housing provision from the late 1940s. [5]
The design of the Art Deco building is similar to other Singapore Improvement Trust residential blocks along Seng Poh Road in Tiong Bahru.It features column bases of Shanghai plaster and a real spiral staircase and its balconies feature "fair-faced" brickwork.
Tiong Bahru's block 78's semi-basement was to be playgrounds, however had an option to be converted into an air raid shelter in times of emergency. [1] [2] The air raid shelter was converted from three play pavilions and four garages located at the semi-basement of block 78, which straddles Moh Guan Terrace and Guan Chuan Street. [3]
Tiong Bahru SIT-built blocks. Public housing architecture in Singapore dates back to the 1930s with the Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT), a colonial government agency, embarked on a building programme to address a shortage of affordable housing in Singapore. Initially, the SIT focussed on housing middle and lower-middle class Asians.