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Singapore went through a major building boom in the 1970s and 1980s that resulted from the city's rapid industrialisation. During this time OUB Centre (present-day One Raffles Place) became the tallest building in the city-state; the 280 m (919 ft) structure was also the tallest building in the world outside of North America from its 1986 ...
The Masterplan also explores the use of underground space and co-location for pedestrian linkages, car parking and the expansion of the public transport network, in order to preserve space in land-scarce Singapore. [30] Singapore sees a distinct shift towards sustainability and addressing climate-change related fears in its recent planning ...
Republic Plaza is a skyscraper in Downtown Core, Singapore.It comprises two towers and a 10-storey podium. The first tower, Republic Plaza I, has 66 floors and a height of 280 metres (920 ft), and has a varying octagonal-cross section, while its interior allows for flexible space usage by tenants.
VivoCity was built on the site of the Expo Gateway and Harbour Pavilion exhibition halls of the former World Trade Centre (now the HarbourFront Centre) in June 2003.Since its opening in 2006, it is currently the largest shopping mall in Singapore, spanning 1,500,000 square feet (140,000 m 2) of gross floor area and 1,077,000 square feet (100,100 m 2) of retail space, larger than Suntec City ...
CapitaSpring is a skyscraper in Downtown Core, Singapore. [1] [2] The building was designed by architectural firm BIG and architect Carlo Ratti. [3]With a height of 280 m (920 ft), as of 2022, the building is the joint second-tallest in Singapore, with One Raffles Place, United Overseas Bank Plaza One, and Republic Plaza.
In Singapore’s central business district, Chinese tech giants like TikTok parent ByteDance and online retailer Shein jockey for office space alongside Google, Amazon, and IBM.
Traditional architecture in Singapore includes vernacular Malay houses, local hybrid shophouses and black and white bungalows, a range of places of worship reflecting the ethnic and religious diversity of the city-state as well as colonial civic and commercial architecture in European Neoclassical, gothic, palladian and renaissance styles.
In 1967, to combat this decline in natural space, the government introduced the vision of making Singapore a "garden city", [305] aiming to improve quality of life. [306] Since then, nearly 10% of Singapore's land has been set aside for parks and nature reserves. [307] The government has created plans to preserve the country's remaining ...