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The souvenir shop at glass annexe was also closed and vacated. By end August 2020, the 1919 Waterboat House and The Rooftop had closed down upon its extended two years expiry lease. On 28 April 2021 the Spanish restaurant Basque Kitchen by Aitor formerly located at the Amoy Street, was re-opened on the space of the former Starbucks restaurant. [13]
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Tropicana was a 4-storey mixed-use building at 9 Scotts Road in Singapore.It was developed by Shaw Sung Ching and opened in 1968. Tropicana was reportedly the country's first building to contain nightclubs, restaurants, and a theatre.
Orchard Towers is an 18-story office building in Singapore located on the corner of Claymore Road and Orchard Road.Construction was completed in 1975. The first five floors are a combination of bars and retail outlets with the remainder leased as offices. [1]
Singapore's history of skyscrapers began with the 1939 completion of the 17-storey Cathay Building. [4] The 70-metre (230 ft) structure was, at the time of its completion, the tallest building in Southeast Asia; it was superseded by the 87-metre (285 ft) Asia Insurance Building in 1954, which remained the tallest in Singapore for more than a ...
There was a well-patronised public toilet with a flat roof of which there are archival photos, complete with jubilant rooftop transvestites. [ 12 ] One of the "hallowed traditions" bestowed upon the area by sojourning sailors (usually from Britain, Australia, and New Zealand), was the ritualistic "dance of the flaming arseholes" on top of the ...
Republic Plaza consists of three buildings, the 66-storey Republic Plaza I, the 23-storey Republic Plaza II, and a 10-storey podium linking the two towers (Plaza I and Plaza II) [5] Republic Plaza I was designed by Kisho Kurokawa, and with a height of 280 metres (920 ft), was, along with OUB Centre, and UOB Plaza, the tallest building in Singapore at the time of its completion.
In May 2013, the National Council of Churches of Singapore (NCCS) said it was looking into a complaint about singer Adam Lambert performing at The Star Performing Arts Centre. Lim K. Tham, general secretary of the council said it had received a complaint that "the gay lifestyle may be promoted at the concert", a reference to Lambert's ...