Tanjong Pagar Shophouse Heritage

The Seng Wong Beo Temple features a curved roof decorated with elaborate dragons and figures from Chinese folklore. Established in nineteen oh five by immigrants from Fujian, the temple serves as the City God’s residence. The original City…

Tanjong Pagar Plaza presents a massive, block-long facade of white concrete and repetitive balconies that loom over the low-rise shophouses of the surrounding streets. Built in nineteen seventy-eight, this Housing and Development Board…

The Tanjong Pagar shophouses are identified by their tall, slender proportions and a distinct layer of decorative plasterwork known as Chinese Baroque ornamentation. These structures were built in the late nineteenth century to house…

The Jinrikisha Station features a distinct triangular footprint with rounded corners and ornate red brickwork, standing firmly at the junction of Neil Road and Tanjong Pagar Road. Built in nineteen oh three, the building served as the…

Duxton Hill sits on a small rise above the surrounding shophouses, distinguished by rows of brightly painted, two-story terrace houses with neoclassical pillars and louvered shutters. These buildings once housed colonial traders and…

The Pinnacle at Duxton rises as a cluster of seven fifty-story towers connected by sky gardens on the twenty-sixth and fiftieth floors. It occupies the former site of the first two public housing blocks built by the Singapore Improvement…

The NUS Baba House features a vibrant blue exterior with intricately carved wooden shutters, standing out among the surrounding urban landscape. This restored nineteenth century shophouse served as the ancestral home of the Wee family for…