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)...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleDiscovering 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...
View ArticleDiscovering 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),...
View Article(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,...
View ArticleDiscovering 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...
View ArticleDiscovering 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...
View ArticleDiscovering 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...
View ArticleDiscovering 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...
View ArticleDiscovering 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....
View ArticleSingapore’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...
View ArticleLife 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleRestoring 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleIdentifying 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...
View ArticleCashin 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,...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleMore 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...
View ArticleChip 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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