One of Singapore's oldest hotels has finally called it a day after 55 years. The New 7th Storey Hotel at Rochor Road is making way for the new Bugis MRT station. The new Bugis station is one of the six that make up the 4.3-kilometre Downtown Line One, which is scheduled to open in 2013. Authorities said demolition of the hotel is unavoidable due to engineering constraints. The owners spent some...
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I READ “It’s the end of the Storey” (June 27) with disbelief. How serious are we as a nation about preserving what little is left of our heritage? What, exactly, are these “engineering constraints” that make it impossible to construct the Downtown Line without demolishing the New 7th Storey Hotel? Since the Bugis station already exists, would it be fair to say that they will just be doing works...
Shouldn’t technology be able to save the New 7th Storey Hotel? I REFER to “It’s the end of the Storey” (June 27) and I want to express my utmost disappointment at the imminent demolition of the New 7th Storey Hotel (picture) along Rochor Road. It is hard to understand that with the advance in building technology why this is the only engineering solution to resolve the situation; we have even seen...