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The elegance of Singapore at the centenary of its founding
A selection of images of a Singapore, around the time the centenary of its founding. The images show a charming and elegant side hard now to imagine. While a handful of buildings from the era can still...
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Goodbye to the $1 flats
Change has become an inevitable aspect of life in Singapore. Places we cherish go in a flash and are quickly replaced by unfamiliar. For some, the passing of a neighbourhood in which they may have...
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Last(ing) Impressions
Sunday, 4 October 2015, was the day we said our farewells to an old neighbourhood at Blocks 74 to 80 Commonwealth Drive, which will soon be demolished. The farewell to neighbourhood built at a time of...
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A wander through old Changi Hospital
Changi is an area of Singapore still riddled with many reminders of its past. The site of an artillery battery and an army garrison before the war, Changi was also where tens of thousands of...
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Closing the Circle
One of the things the announcement identifying the sites of the Circle Line Stage 6 stations that will not go unnoticed is that parts of the former Tanjong Pagar Railway Station’s platforms will have...
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The final battle line at Mount Pleasant
A peek into a “Black and White” house, No. 159 Mount Pleasant Road, where some of the last battles may have been fought before Singapore fell on 15 February 1942. The grounds of the house were the...
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The estate that Lee Kong Chian built
Lying at the foot of Bukit Timah Hill is a tiny estate that if not for the Rail Mall that now fronts it and the nearby railway truss bridge, would probably go unnoticed. The estate of 142 households,...
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The Rail Corridor, what will be
The header of a graphic produced by the Straits Times related to the winning concept master plan for the Rail Corridor Request for Proposal reads “On track for big changes”. It isn’t a big change...
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The ghosts on Forbidden Hill
Fort Canning Hill, the scene of many a schoolboy adventure, is a place I constantly find myself drawn to. The attraction of the hill, where mortals once feared to tread in its days as Bukit Larangan –...
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The last forested hill in Sembawang
Sitting in relative isolation and surrounded by a lush forest of greenery for much of the 77 years of its existence, Old Admiralty House may soon find itself in less than familiar settings. The...
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