Construction has started for the new Shaw Tower, which will be redeveloped into a 200-metre mixed-use tower. Once a landmark of Beach Road with its iconic Brutalist architectural style and waffle-like facade, the old tower was demolished in 2020 to make way for the redevelopment as the Bugis area undergoes rejuvenation. According to a media...
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Named after Queen Elizabeth II in honour of her coronation in 1952, Queenstown was Singapore’s first-ever satellite town built back when Singapore was still a British colony. It’s now home to over 82,500 HDB residents. It borders Bukit Timah to the north, Tanglin to the northeast, Bukit Merah to the east and southeast, and Clementi...
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On April 29, 2022, the Municipal Services Office (MSO) and Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth (MCCY) met to form a Community Advisory Panel (CAP) on a very interesting problem. The agenda? To develop a set of community norms that will address the issue of “neighbourhood noise”. Neighbourhood noise in this case means noise from...
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