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At that time Wan Tho was still an undergraduate at Cambridge University. She proceeded to build the Loke family's first multiplex: the Pavilion Theatre in Kuala Lumpur. In 1937, she purchased a site at Dhoby Ghaut in Singapore where she constructed the modern Cathay Building and developed cinema, hotel and restaurant businesses. When the Cathay ...
The building was the first and tallest skyscraper in Singapore and in Southeast Asia, at a height of 83.5 metres from the Dhoby Ghaut entrance to the top of the building's water tower. [1] Its theatre was the island's first air-conditioned cinema and public building, and where one could sit in an arm chair to watch a film ; a rare amenity ...
The Cathay is a mixed-use 17-storey cinema, shopping mall and apartment building located at Handy Road and Mount Sophia in the Museum Planning Area of Singapore.
Closed in August 2023, The Cathay, located in Dhoby Ghaut, will be revamped and reimagined with a refreshed tenant mix. The building's owner, Cathay Organisation, stated that more details of the project will be revealed at a later stage. [85] The revamp is expected to be completed by end 2024. [85]
It is served by the North–South Line, between Orchard and Dhoby Ghaut stations, and has the station code NS23. [10] Somerset station was designed to function as a bomb shelter, and was fitted out with blast doors and thick walls of reinforced concrete to withstand bomb impacts. [11]
Dhoby Ghaut (/ ˌ d oʊ b i ˈ ɡ ɔː t / DOH-bee GAWT) is a place in Singapore that often refers to the MRT station of the same name, which is a major interchange station on Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit network connecting the North-South Line, North East Line, and the Circle Line. As a place, Dhoby Ghaut lies along the eastern end of ...
Dhoby Ghaut MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) interchange station on the North South, North East and Circle lines in Singapore. Located beneath the eastern end of Orchard Road shopping belt in Dhoby Ghaut , Museum Planning Area , the station is integrated with the commercial development The Atrium@Orchard.
The Museum Planning Area is home to various shopping malls, including Park Mall, Plaza Singapura, The Cathay, Singapore Shopping Centre and The Atrium @ Orchard. More vacant land will be set aside for commercial uses, especially around Dhoby Ghaut MRT station and Bras Basah MRT station. These will be properly integrated and connected with the ...