When Ms Hidayah Amin walks around her old neighbourhood of Kampong Glam, she does not hide her disappointment. To her, it “has no spirit anymore”. “Last time, this used to be a residential area. Today, it is just very sanitised and commercialised … the whole place is just for tourists,” she told the programme Talking Point. The former resident feels that despite conservation efforts since...
Singapore Heritage
Another six buildings will be preserved as national monuments. They are Church of St Teresa, Command House, Keng Teck Whay temple, the former Raffles College, the former St James Power Station, and Bowyer Block at the Singapore General Hospital. Acting Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, RADM (NS) Lui Tuck Yew, in announcing the latest buildings to be gazetted on the National...
MANY Singaporeans may remember taking their wedding photos at the Look-out Tower at the Toa Payoh Town Park in the past. Today, the memories will live on not only in picture albums but through the efforts of the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). The statutory board is expanding its conservation programme for buildings and monuments to include heritage structures. “What makes a place distinctive and...
For the first time, heritage structures such as bridges and towers will be included under a national programme to conserve Singapore's architectural heritage, and Anderson Bridge is one of six bridges named for conservation in 2008. The others are the Elgin Bridge at Boat Quay, the Cavenagh Bridge just outside Fullerton Hotel, the Ord, Read and Crawford Bridges. At the 2008 URA Architectural Heritage...