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Singapore's history of skyscrapers began with the 1939 completion of the 17-storey Cathay Building. [4] The 70-metre (230 ft) structure was, at the time of its completion, the tallest building in Southeast Asia; it was superseded by the 87-metre (285 ft) Asia Insurance Building in 1954, which remained the tallest in Singapore for more than a ...
Commonwealth is a subzone of Queenstown, located in the central-western part of Singapore.It is named after the Commonwealth of Nations.Commonwealth consists of Housing and Development Board flats, and there is one primary school and a secondary school in the area, New Town Primary School and Queensway Secondary School.
Among the population, 108,900 residents, or 38.3% of the population, live in 4-room HDB flats, making it the most common type of dwelling. 34,260 residents (12.0%) reside in condominiums and other apartments, while 4,340 (1.53%) live in landed properties. The average household size in Tampines is 3.34.
This is a list of places in Singapore based on the planning areas and their constituent subzones as designated by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). Based on the latest URA Master Plan in 2019, the country is divided into 5 regions , which are further subdivided into 55 planning areas , and finally subdivided into a total of 332 subzones.
The Interlace's site formerly housed the 607 units Gillman Heights Condominium, which is 50 percent owned by the National University of Singapore (NUS). [6] The property was subsequently sold to CapitaLand through a collective sale but the sale was controversial as NUS held a 16 percent stake in Ankerite, a private fund that was a subsidiary of CapitaLand.
One of the plans included developing the Kallang area (just to the east of the town-centre) into Singapore's equivalent of London's Hyde Park. This master-plan was reported in the local newspaper, The Straits Times, dated from 11 March 1955. [8] The low-rise brick-clad flats of Dakota Crescent Estate were built by SIT in 1958. [9]
HDB residences in Bishan town. Public housing in Singapore is subsidised, built, and managed by the government of Singapore.Starting in the 1930s, the country's first public housing was built by the Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT) in a similar fashion to contemporaneous British public housing projects, and housing for the resettlement of squatters was built from the late 1950s.
The Common Services Tunnel is a development of the Marina Bay area in Singapore. It is said to be the second of its kind in Asia after Japan . This utility tunnel houses telecom cables, power lines, water pipes as well as provision for pneumatic refuse collection pipes. [ 15 ]