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A morning by the strait
Photographs taken at dawn on 11 Aug 2026 at Sembawang Park – one of the best spots in Singapore to catch the sunrise. There are also a couple of views of the North Wall and North Pier of Seatrium’s...
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Discovering the old Sikh Barracks
Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets Exploring the Past, Reimagining the Future of Singapore’s Historical State Properties Tours in Collaboration with the Singapore Land Authority (SLA)...
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Discovering Adam Park
Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets Exploring the Past, Reimagining the Future of Singapore’s Historical State Properties Held in collaboration with the Singapore Land Authority (SLA),...
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Discovering a Sembawang Arts and Crafts Inspiration
Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept SecretsExploring the Past, Re-imagining the Future of Singapore’s Historical State Properties Discovering a Sembawang Arts and Crafts Inspiration20 Dec 2025 The...
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Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets
Exploring the Past, Re-imagining the Future of Singapore’s Historical State Properties Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets State Property Tours are back—with a focus on adaptive reuse....
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Singapore’s Modern CBD: a Sea of Change
Trinity Church as viewed through Wall Street. The view of the former Telok Ayer Market, at the end of the narrow passage formed by the backs of the towering structures of Robinson Road and Shenton...
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Panguni Uthiram 2025
Photographs of Panguni Uthiram 2025 See also:https://www.instagram.com/p/DISv578SMi8/https://www.instagram.com/p/DIR5AXlTGBr/ Panguni Uthiram in previous years: Panguni Uthiram 2024: The full moon of...
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Life returns to 5 Kadayanallur Street
No 5 Kadayanallur Street, the former St Andrew’s Mission Hospital, looks fresh and new in its makeover as ‘KADA’. The latest addition to Chinatown’s developing lifestyle scene began its life just a...
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The beauty of Adam Park
Adam Park is a beautiful colonial residential estate that was recently in the news, having been earmarked for conservation. Built from 1928 to 1932, the estate’s 19 residences housed Singapore...
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Restoring Faith
The beautiful St. Joseph’s Church has always had a place in my heart. It was the church at which my late mother received her sacraments as a child, were I often attended mass and Good Friday services...
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The Chinese and Japanese Gardens reinterpreted
Together with Jurong Bird Park and Jurong Hill Park, the Chinese and Japanese Gardens made up an ensemble of parks and garden attractions developed in the Jurong of the 1970s. An emphasis was placed...
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Singapore Heritage Festival 2024: paying homage to the building blocks of our...
Difficult as it may now be to imagine, but the sea once washed right up to Telok Ayer Street which today has the largest concentration of National Monuments in Singapore. It was along the street that...
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C H Malan’s Tanglin Oval, a legacy ruined
The invasion of futsal cages across the so-called Tanglin Oval is quite a horrifying sight. Surely, the old Tanglin Barracks cricket ground deserves better, having had a place in history as...
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A window into a gas lit past
As well as having the power to evoke a deep sense of longing in us for places we can no longer see, old photographs can be windows into the past, and provide us with clues to life beyond what the...
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Homage to the goddess of the sea
The view from a reimagined sea … to an earthly abode of the goddess of the sea. It may be difficult to imagine it now, but there was a time when the sea washed right up to Telok Ayer Street. Those...
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Portugal in Singapore
Good Friday at the Church of St Joseph at Victoria Street is a special occasion. The church’s commemoration of the solemn occasion is when the church’s Portuguese influences are best seen, especially...
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The Girls of Jalan Saksama
I just uncovered this gem, from an interview that I conducted in 2014 with three sisters, Neng Atini Roslan, Danilah Roslan and Siti Dahlia Roslan. The Girls of Jalan Saksama, as I called the sisters,...
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NHB’s 24th heritage trail is a window into Changi’s intriguing past
Changi is many things to me. It is a place, unspoiled in some parts, of great natural beauty, a place of much history, and most of all, a place whose magic is timeless. Changi has given me many...
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The final piece in the refurbishment of the Portuguese Church
The Church of St Joseph at Victoria Street was established by the Portuguese Mission to serve the spiritual needs of the Portuguese / Portuguese Eurasian community in Singapore. Having maintained its...
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Identifying the house that Taylor Swift’s mum grew up in
Singapore was caught up in Taylor Swift fever with the American pop sensation in town for a six-concert Singapore leg of her sixth tour. There was also much excitement over Swift’s Singapore...
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