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Traditional architecture in Singapore includes vernacular Malay houses, local hybrid shophouses and black and white bungalows, a range of places of worship reflecting the ethnic and religious diversity of the city-state as well as colonial civic and commercial architecture in European Neoclassical, gothic, palladian and renaissance styles.
Overhangs on two sides of Pennsylvania Dutch barns protect doors, windows, and other lower-level structures. Overhangs on all four sides of barns and larger, older farmhouses are common in Swiss architecture. An overhanging eave is the edge of a roof, protruding outwards from the side of the building, generally to provide weather protection.
City Developments Limited (CDL), sometimes also known as CityDev, [4] is a Singaporean multinational real estate operating organisation. [5] Founded in 1963, CDL first developed projects in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, as well as in Singapore. However, due to the racial and political situation in Singapore and Malaysia, CDL was forced to sell its ...
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Before 1951, the City Council was known as the Municipal Commission. [1] The rest of the crown colony was under the authority of the Singapore Rural Board. The city served as the capital of Colony of Singapore, and the State of Singapore from 1951 until its abolishment in 1965. [1] [2]
The Former City Hall building in Singapore is a national monument gazetted on 14 February 1992. It can be found in front of the historical Padang and adjacent to the Former Supreme Court of Singapore , it was designed and built by the architects of the Singapore Municipal Commission , A. Gordans and F. D. Meadows from 1926 to 1929.
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A low wall built up above the level of a roof, to hide the roof or to provide protection against falling, and similar structures associated with balconies, bridges etc. [71] Parclose screen A screen or railing used to enclose a chantry chapel, tomb or manorial chapel, in a church, and for the space thus enclosed. [72] Parterre