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The dragon-shaped sand-based playground used to be a popular design for playgrounds in Ang Mo Kio and Toa Payoh. After 1993, they were phased out due to safety concerns and it is believed that this Dragon Playground of Toa Payoh (located at Blk 28 Toa Payoh Lorong 6) is the only one of its kinds […]

“Shophouses” is a generic term of construction in which buildings are built contiguously, i.e. sharing party walls, forms blocks separated from each other by streets and back lanes. It is used as residences, shops and stores. This “Late Shophouse style” (established around 1900s) is one of the five different stylistic shophouses in Singapore comprising of […]

The octagonal gazebo located in the Tanglin Core of Singapore Botanic Gardens, known as the Bandstand upon the Bandstand Hill was erected in 1930 and has retained its original form over the years. The Bandstand site served as a focal point of the Singapore Botanic Gardens in its original landscape and staged early evening performances […]

Raffles Hotel, Singapore was opened in 1887 in a rather sombre-looking old bungalow known as Beach House by three Armenian brothers from Julfa, which is today’s Turkey. In 1989, the hotel was restored to the style and ambience of the 1920s as its heyday is one of the few remaining great 19th century hotels in […]

“Shophouses” is a generic term of construction in which buildings are built contiguously, i.e. sharing party walls, forms blocks separated from each other by streets and back lanes. It is used as residences, shops and stores. This “Late Shophouse style” (established around 1900s) is one of the five different stylistic shophouses in Singapore comprising of […]

“Shophouses” is a generic term of construction in which buildings are built contiguously, i.e. sharing party walls, forms blocks separated from each other by streets and back lanes. It is used as residences, shops and stores. This “Late Shophouse style” (established around 1900s) is one of the five different stylistic shophouses in Singapore comprising of […]