Found these online

http://psych.fullerton.edu/navarick/Sing5.jpg

http://psych.fullerton.edu/navarick/Sing2.jpg

http://psych.fullerton.edu/navarick/Sing1.jpg

Got the Petronas feel to it! :cool:
OCBC looks white in the 1st pic.

Awesome!! Looks really progressive:D
The short UOB building is also in its old facade design...

O/T: thats how Merlion Park used to look like? Not that nice. Its so much nicer now, with its tiles and little dock. Also, the restaurants there make the area look better.
Fullerton Hotel also looks deteriorated back then. Now, it is much grander:okay:

Amazing! And Plaza 2 is still back in it's old design. :)

I have not been to the Merlion Park since the building of the Esplanade Bridge.

The Waterboat House is now at the fork of Fullerton Road & Esplanade Drive.


Amazing pics ,btw.

The UOB seems to look even skinnier here. :D

The Waterboat House is now at the fork of Fullerton Road & Esplanade Drive.
Huh? Isnt it still at the same location?

It used to be by the sea ,now its 'landlocked'.:)

Wow... so amazing.... I can't imagine the skyline ever being without that building.... it would just be.... so.... so un-singapore-ish....

I have not been to the Merlion Park since the building of the Esplanade Bridge.



You seriously need to pay it a visit, even if its a touristy thing to do :cheers:

Wow... so amazing.... I can't imagine the skyline ever being without that building.... it would just be.... so.... so un-singapore-ish....

I can. I can remember in 1991 when they hadnt finished building it yet and featured it in UOB Bank adverts standing just as tall as OUB I was thinking, "That looks so weird and unreal, now the glory of OUB is spoilt!"
:bash: :D

Another rare shot

Millenia Tower under construction.
http://img43.photobucket.com/albums/v133/RafflesCity/milleniacon.jpg

WOW!!!! Great find!
I especially like the last one.

Wow! Incredible to see Singapore transform so fast!
The construction shots make the OUB building look tilted :eek:

Wow this pictures are classics.....it's amazing to see how the building transform......:eek:

Too bad for the 280m height limit though, but I am right..every 5 years a big one goes up..so always something big to look forward too :yes:

1986 - OUB, Swissotel, Temasek Tower (280,226m,230m)
1992 - UOB (280m)
1995 - Republic Plaza (280m)
1996 - Millenia Tower (218m)
2000 - Capital Tower (252m)
2005 - 1 Raffles Quay (245m)
2007/8 - Marina Boulevard apartments (245m)
2010-12? - BFC

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19990001308-8346-3102-2031/img0074.jpg

Omg! Wow!!!

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980005524-8120-3181-1379/img0060.jpg

I tot I saw these photos before...and not once too?

haha..yes..huaiwei already posted these pics - in the Old Photos of City thread.

anyway I will be merging all such threads later into a 'pics of buildings under construction' or something like that.

Do not merge lah.:D
We would end up with super-big threads and would have difficulty finding pics or info!:D

Do not merge lah.:D
We would end up with super-big threads and would have difficulty finding pics or info!:D
Well....this thread is on the verge of getting pruned away, so there! :D

Anyone have pics of Capital Tower or Temasek Tower under construction?

Here:
http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980006079-8154-3221-1933/img0073.jpg

Thanks! You can clearly see the building's cantilevered structure, with no columns on the facade. This allowed unobstructed views.

But would that make the core proportionally bigger than other 'normal' buildings?

Yes, the core is slightly bigger, at 23 m wide, and the concrete core walls are also thicker.

still great to see this again

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19990001311-8346-3102-2053/img0019.jpg
^Marina Complex!

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19990001310-8346-3102-2052/img0097.jpg
^On the left are the legs of the Ritz-Carlton Millenia

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19990001311-8346-3102-2053/img0103.jpg
^Bank of China extension tower

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19990001309-8346-3102-2033/img0117.jpg
^UOB Plaza 1

OMG!!!! :eek2:

very rare finds! :banana:

I never noticed Millenia Tower or that whole development when it was u/c in the mid 90s actually...must have been so cool.

anyway there is a thread for construction pics that I'll merge later :)

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19990001311-8346-3102-2053/img0030.jpg
Millenia Tower!

eek... the shophouses must really be refurbished or demolished. i hope i witness a building boom like the one at marina in bfc.

Those are already long gone.

Maybe because they look like slums?

not all - along the road with sultan mosque one side is lined with not very prettily refurbished shophouses while the other side still has embarrassingly dilapidated ones.

Those in front of Gateway, and those around the New 7th Storey Hotel are gone.
Those at Sultan are still there.

It's very bad that the shophouses in front of the Gateway have been demolished ... If they would still exist there would be one large shophouse district, including the Arab Street area and the shophouses further south towards Raffles Hotel. This could have been developed into a major attraction. But now, except of Parkview Square, the area in front of the Gateway is empty and boring ... It's the same mistake that Singapore made in Chinatown where the Tanjong Pagar district and the conservation areas further north are interrupted by open space ... :ohno:

well the shophouses there have given way for the Parkview Square, but where there are potential for restoration or for just leaving things as they are, then I'd favour retaining more shophouses - but no slums please...

Skyscraper freaks' heaven:

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980007388-8263-3201-0893/img0004.jpg

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980007388-8263-3201-0893/img0009.jpg

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980007388-8263-3201-0893/img0012.jpg

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980007388-8263-3201-0893/img0027.jpg

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980007388-8263-3201-0893/img0008.jpg

OMG! :eek2:

the contrast with the shophouses!

Hong Leong looks really powerful in there

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980007447-8263-3201-0177/img0100.jpg
Left to right:
Unknown building, UOB Building, Ocean Towers, CPF, DBS, UIC!!!

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980007447-8263-3201-0177/img0103.jpg

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980002718-8154-3221-0918/img0118.jpg

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980007450-8263-3201-0181/img0001.jpg
Hong Leong in the background! :runaway:

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980007450-8263-3201-0181/img0003.jpg

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980007450-8263-3201-0181/img0002.jpg

Hold your breath, RC! :D

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980007449-8263-3201-0180/img0055.jpg
Int'l Plaza U/C with OCBC!

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980007449-8263-3201-0180/img0050.jpg

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980005445-8073-3222-0334/img0005.jpg
^Home of Singapore Girl

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980007450-8263-3201-0181/img0102.jpg

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980007450-8263-3201-0181/img0088.jpg

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980007450-8263-3201-0181/img0089.jpg
^What on earth is that?! :runaway:

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980007450-8263-3201-0181/img0110.jpg

^
Breathtaking pictures!!!!!:eek:

Today's your lucky day! :D

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980007450-8263-3201-0181/img0100.jpg
http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980007451-8263-3201-0182/img0018.jpg
^A little known former giant

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980007450-8263-3201-0181/img0111.jpg

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980007450-8263-3201-0181/img0112.jpg

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19990001310-8346-3102-2052/img0001.jpg

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980006571-8105-3181-0779/img0042.jpg

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is amazing!!!
:dance: :dance: :dance:

I really like looking at the skyscraper boom of the 70s because I was born in that decade (later part hor), so its cool to know how Singapore looked like back then :yes:

When I was young, I was fascinated with DBS and CPF cos they kinda looked like relatives

looked like relatives?!

Haha. It's so nice to see those scrapers shooting up. Haha. Really has this undescribable feel to it. Like watching a baby grow? It's just so surreal...

watching a baby grow? more like watching a new breed of giants asserting Singapore's growing economic might on the landscape! :lol:

anyway they both do have similar 70s designs

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980006346-8154-3221-1466/img0019.jpg
The late riser.

thats really rare! :okay:

I was looking at some of the pics posted earlier, I think that tall thing sticking up near the Padang might be Shaw Tower?

http://img29.exs.cx/img29/2285/MNDPano.jpg (http://img29.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img29&image=MNDPano.jpg)

http://img94.exs.cx/img94/7160/SingaporeNow.jpg (http://img94.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img94&image=SingaporeNow.jpg)

Amazing Singapore! Over 30 years... Same site btw... just angle a bit off...

WOW!!! the last pair is amazing!!!

Hong Leong Building looked so tall last time

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980005524-8120-3181-1379/img0060.jpg

WOW! I just love OUB Plaza. I think it is my favorite Asian skyscraper.

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980002919-8262-3202-1096/img0113.jpg
:eek2:

And what on earth is that GRAND building?:eek:

I dont recognise that canal

that grand building is now occupied by the SMRT building

that pic is really rare :eek:

So the building is gone?

It's Stamford Canal, now covered up. ;)
The same thing under Orchard Road Pedestrian Mall.

That 'grand building' was the previous Raffles Girls' Primary School. that low shack was the toilet - reputed to be haunted.................according to my sis.

Just across this canal is MPH.

That's so sad... Now it's gone...

Welcome, by the way! :D :wave:

That's Raffles City, correct? That's the first construction pic I've ever seen of the complex.

yup..the first major tenant in there was Sogo when it opened

Raffles City construction
http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980005787-8106-3181-7867/img0069.jpg

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980005787-8106-3181-7867/img0067.jpg

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980005787-8106-3181-7867/img0073.jpg

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980005787-8106-3181-7867/img0074.jpg

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980005787-8106-3181-7867/img0075.jpg

awesome...really awesome :eek:

it was one of the largest urban renewal programmes undertaken by independent Singapore

the plans were fleshed out in the early 1970s but the building was completed in 1986

I posted these before, but I'll post them here again.

Early proposals for the Raffles City complex:

http://pachome1.pacific.net.sg/~mippy/swiss1.jpg

http://pachome1.pacific.net.sg/~mippy/swiss2.jpg

http://pachome1.pacific.net.sg/~mippy/swiss1.jpg
I say, this is absolutely hideous! :puke:

has that OUB touch to it :D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v606/redstone/orchardsky.jpg
So many towers u/c! :eek:

What projects? :?

on the left is Infinium (33 floors)

those 3 blocks wrapped in green are Draycott Drive (24 floors)

Orchard is starting to look like a plateau, all thanks to the height restriction thingy.

at least its getting denser :cool:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v606/redstone/condoconsttts.jpg
What is the white condo? Setia???
What are they building? Infinium? :?


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v606/redstone/condosuc.jpg
And this?:?

All those cranes are the Infinium condo..there are 2 of them...seen in both pics

the white building is called Setia..looks very nice but is hardly occupied :cool:

the rendering

http://img87.exs.cx/img87/4056/inf1.jpg

Lincoln Modern under construction

http://www.peri.de/apps/references/img/peri_lincoln_modern_1_lg.jpg

http://www.peri.de/apps/references/img/peri_lincoln_modern_3_lg.jpg

http://www.peri.de/apps/references/img/peri_lincoln_modern_2_lg.jpg

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980000768-7736-3282-3480/img0004.jpg
Gateway

but, the focus seemed to be on Shaw Building instead. :)

I remember the Gateway construction was halted for a few years due to some crisis in the 80s and was left standing along the highway for a long time

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980000770-7736-3282-3482/img0014.jpg
Republic and UOB Plaza 2 reclad.

I remember the Gateway construction was halted for a few years due to some crisis in the 80s and was left standing along the highway for a long time
Hm...icic. All I know was the project seems to be full of bad luck! :D

Hm...icic. All I know was the project seems to be full of bad luck! :D

well..they killed the shophouses in front of them..and now theyre demolished! :bash:

Standard Chartered Construction Site (6 Battery Rd)

http://www.jdc-corpn.com.sg/Projects/Building/Standard%20Chartered%20Bank/std-oub.jpg
http://www.jdc-corpn.com.sg/Projects/Building/Standard%20Chartered%20Bank/std-oub.ss.jpg

http://pachome1.pacific.net.sg/~mippy/swiss1.jpg
I say, this is absolutely hideous! :puke:

It is far nicer than the Raffles City complex we have now, much more modern looking...

Standard Chartered Construction Site (6 Battery Rd)

http://www.jdc-corpn.com.sg/Projects/Building/Standard%20Chartered%20Bank/std-oub.jpg
http://www.jdc-corpn.com.sg/Projects/Building/Standard%20Chartered%20Bank/std-oub.ss.jpg

:eek:

Republic Plaza under construction

http://www.tropicalisland.de/SIN_Singapore_construction.jpg