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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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The lingering soul of The English House

The English House, Marco Pierre White’s rather eccentrically embellished dining establishment at Mohamed Sultan Road may have shut its doors early last year, but its soul hasn’t left the pair of...

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Discovering Command House

Next on Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets #SLASecretSpaces is a visit to the former Command House on 25 July 2026.Designed by Frank W. Brewer and completed in 1938 as Flagstaff House, the...

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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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(Re)Discovering Kada

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 and Kada,...

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Discovering the Golden Bell

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 and the Danish...

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Discovering the former Bukit Timah Fire Station

Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept Secrets Exploring the Past, Reimagining the Future of Singapore’s Historical State Properties  Discovering the former Bukit Timah StationThis visit is being organised...

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Discovering the Medway

Discovering Singapore’s Best Kept SecretsExploring the Past, Re-imagining the Future of Singapore’s Historical State Properties Tucked away in a quiet corner of Dover Road, an area associated with...

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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 Four Grand Mansions

The Karim Family Foundation’s acquisition and careful restoration of the now resplendent House of Tan Yeok Nee (see also: The Last of the Grand Teochew Mansions), is truly a gift to Singapore. The...

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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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A visit to the unique Prima Tower Revolving Restaurant for the Singapore...

Among the buildings that have come to define the built landscape of Keppel Road and Keppel Harbour is the quite unmissable revolving restaurant topped grain silos of Prima Flour Mills. Prima Flour...

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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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Cashin House, “The Pier” reborn

The Pier, which was last the home of lawyer and sportsman Howard Cashin and his wife Lily in 2009, has been reborn. Sensitively rebuilt with salvageable elements such as roof and floor tiles, bricks,...

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A lone tomb, a memory of Syonan Shipyard, and their links to Keppel House

Much has been made about the “mysterious” solitary Japanese tomb sitting on the southern slopes of Mount Faber. The tomb, which could be thought of as a memorial to a painful time in Singapore’s...

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More Windows into the Past: The gilt-decorated domed mansion that depleted...

Another set of photographs from the Harrison Forman collection offering a peak into Singapore’s past is one that contains views, in complete colour, of a famous but long demolished mansion and its...

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Chip Bee Gardens, privately developed to house military personnel

A destination whose attraction is its cool cafes and restaurants, and trendy boutiques, it is hard to tell that Chip Bee Gardens, when it was completed in the mid-1960s, served as an abode for British...

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