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Designed by WOHA, a Singapore-based architecture firm, [6] designed this hotel as a hotel-as-garden that actually doubled the green-growing potential of its site. It includes green walls, water features and 15,000 m 2 of tiered "sky gardens", claiming to be self-sustaining and are designed to consume minimal energy with the use of solar cells, motion sensors, rainwater harvesting and reclaimed ...
Alkaff Mansion is an early 20th-century colonial bungalow located within the Telok Blangah Hill Park in Singapore. The hill was originally called Mt Washington, and was part of a sprawling land estate owned by a wealthy Arab Syed Shaikh bin Abdul Rahman Alkaff.
The centre was three-storeys stall, and was, according to local architect Lee Kip Lin, "one of the best-designed post-World War 1 buildings in Singapore". [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The centre was popular with socialites and housed several boutiques, as well as the company City Developments Limited .
Tyersall Park is an estate in Singapore, bound by Holland Road and Tyersall Avenue, and near the Singapore Botanic Gardens.Previously a private land belonging to the Sultan of Johor from 1862, some portions of it had been acquired by the Government of Singapore in 1990 and in 2009 respectively.
Istana Woodneuk is an abandoned two-storey palace at the former Tyersall Park, bounded by Holland Road and Tyersall Avenue, near the Singapore Botanic Gardens in Singapore. Before it was rebuilt in 1935 it was known as Istana Woodneuk. It suffered a major fire in 2006 and has been deemed beyond repair.
The Istana Singapore: Its Grounds and Landscape, Singapore: President's Office, 1994, ISBN 978-9971-88-447-5. Norman Edwards; Peter Keys (1996), Singapore – A Guide to Buildings, Streets, Places , Singapore: Times Books International, ISBN 978-9971-65-231-9 .
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Haw Par Villa (Chinese: 虎豹別墅; pinyin: Hǔ Bào Biéshù; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hó͘ pà pia̍t-sú) is a theme park located along Pasir Panjang Road in Singapore.The park contains over 1,000 statues and 150 giant dioramas depicting scenes from Chinese Literature, folklore, legends, history, and statuary of key Chinese religions, Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism.