Five restoration projects have been awarded the Urban Redevelopment Authority's Architectural Heritage Award this year. They include The Sultan hotel, NUS' Bukit Timah Campus and Space Asia Hub. They were selected for their exceptional and innovative work in heritage conservation. Visitors to The Sultan hotel along Jalan Sultan are treated to a trip back in time to Singapore's colonial era. Mr Tan Kay...
URA Architectural Heritage Awards
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...