Welcome to the suburb of Novena.The skyscraper boom only started in 1996.Prior to that there were only two highrises there.
Look at it now.Enjoy!

Pics by RafflesCity, our Novena resident photographer!:D
http://img101.exs.cx/img101/7734/skylinefromtp2.jpg
http://img48.exs.cx/img48/3544/nov3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v133/RafflesCity/avview3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v133/RafflesCity/newtonskyline2.jpg

A continuation of Novena's skyline is that of Newton.It consists of mainly 'middle-aged' highrise condos and some highrise offices.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/2/103newton1.jpg

http://img23.exs.cx/img23/6749/nov1.jpg


a panorama of everything:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/2/103novdaypano.jpg

very beautiful shots.

Its a suburb near to Johor Baru.

Its a suburb near to Johor Baru.

Not really......The Novena suburb is nearer to the Orchard area instead.....The nearest suburb to Johor Baru would be the Woodland area.:)

Night pics
http://img43.photobucket.com/albums/v133/RafflesCity/nightskyline2.jpg
http://img43.photobucket.com/albums/v133/RafflesCity/nightskyline.jpg

WOW!

These outskirts will put to shame many a downtown.

wow is getting a great skyline this Novena !

great pics,and you're right,i've never seen this! :okay:

Fairly impressive skyline for a "Satellite City". It would put city skylines overseas to shame.

I like the cluster of dense scrapers in this pic. It's a nice attempt at recreating the skyline as seen downtown

[img]http://img43.photobucket.com/albums/v133/RafflesCity/nightskyline2.jpg/img]

Just a few nitbits....Novena isnt exactly the "outskirts" of the "city." Rather, it is the outskirts of "downtown".....sort of a transitionary zone into the suburbs where the predominantly mid-rise public housing and the low-rise sprawl are.

Some interesting buildings in the area

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/ssc1819/DSCN2338.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v427/rotpics03/lm2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v427/rotpics03/moulmeinrise.jpg
http://img43.photobucket.com/albums/v133/RafflesCity/moul2.jpg
http://membres.lycos.fr/pengui/ssc/050128_sentinel01.jpg
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/2/9nov2.jpg
Goldhill Plaza
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/2/9nov3.jpg

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pics by RafflesCity, Pengui and baqthier

How tall is the slender building?looks cool!

http://img48.exs.cx/img48/3544/nov3.jpg

27 storeys, but with lofty ceilings so it is much taller than the average 27 storey building.Completed in 2003.:cool: :)

Huh!Its only 27?I thought it was 40!Anyway still a nice buildin:)

Yup.Because it has high ceilings.

At first I also thought it was 40 storeys!:D

More pics

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/2/103nvskyline2.jpg

http://img236.exs.cx/img236/9505/nt5cf.jpg

http://img228.exs.cx/img228/6654/nt20pm.jpg

http://img225.exs.cx/img225/6087/nt32zh.jpg

nice pics but how come the first pic like a little reddish?

I've seen this skyline, coz i went to the church they have over there. It is indeed a nice looking small skyline:)

In 1995, there were only a few skyscrapers, like less than 10.Look at it now!

http://img85.exs.cx/img85/6774/redstonepano2my.jpg

@heirloom

it was evening time and a lot of people were burning joss sticks along Balestier Rd that might have made the pics hazy, so I tried editing the pic ^^

http://img51.photobucket.com/albums/v157/baqthier/viewsgapart2.jpg
^By Baqthier


Taken by RafflesCity from United Square, a office tower in Novena, showing its distance from the CBD.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v133/RafflesCity/view3.jpg

seen from the CBD itself (on the distant left)
http://tinypic.com/4r708y

Great Pictures!!

http://img38.exs.cx/img38/3286/4866.jpg
Novena, on the left.

A construction boom!
:runaway:

Pretty dense.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/503/103nov510d.jpg

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/photopost/data/503/103unitedsq510.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v133/RafflesCity/nov510b.jpg

Wow, I was under the impression that Singapore was pretty much built out. I wonder how much of Singapore is brown or grayfields. Where does the name Novena come from? Is there much interaction with Johor Baru?

Wow, I was under the impression that Singapore was pretty much built out. I wonder how much of Singapore is brown or grayfields. Where does the name Novena come from? Is there much interaction with Johor Baru?

Unurbanised Singapore consists of tropical forest.

Not sure where the name Novena comes from, but its the name of a popular Catholic church there.

Johor Bahru is linked to Singapore by the 1km long causeway in the north of the island.

Wow, I was under the impression that Singapore was pretty much built out. I wonder how much of Singapore is brown or grayfields. Where does the name Novena come from? Is there much interaction with Johor Baru?
Yeah, there isnt much "brown" fields unless they are construction sites. The other underdeveloped land are left well vegetated. :D

As for interaction with Johor Baru, I dont know if it should be measured by numbers alone, but here are some I found, but they tend to refer to Johor State, which I suppose is alright sence the state is largely centred on JB anyway.

There is an average of 30,000 Singaporeans transiting through the Causeway to Johor Bahru every day, with the figure easily doubling on weekends and tripling during peak periods. There is also movement over the second link, but usually to the rest of Johor and Malaysia. In 2000, over 3 million visitors entered Johor from Singapore, of which Singaporeans made up nearly 70%.

I have to point out that tourism statistics as maintained by the Singapore Tourism Board actually excludes all Malaysian citizen arrivals by land, whatever their intentions may be, even if it was for tourism.

A huge number of Malaysian workers from Johor Baru commute daily to jobs in Singapore, irconically forcing Malaysian employers to import foreign workers to replace them. Simple explaination for this: unskilled workers earn RM$300 to $400 a month in Malaysia, and RM$2,200 a month in Singapore. The exact number is difficult to quantify. Malaysia's Foreign Minister once put it at nerely 100,000 per day, although most souces would put it at at 50,000.

There is also a notable number of Johor Bahru students commuting daily to Singapore via the causeway to study here. A total of 6,000 Malaysian students are studying in Singapore of whom about 4,500 commute daily.

In trade, Johor state, if compared with independent countries, would be our 3rd largest partner, and accounts for half of all Singaporean trade with Malaysia. 60% of investments are in Johor, amounting to RM5.7 billion from 1995 to 2000. Singaporeans contributes RM450 million (S$209 million) annually to Johor's economy.

Are there other ways we can measure the amount of interaction between JB and Singapore?

Here is a night pic of the Newton skyline by hyacinthus

http://img14.echo.cx/img14/8345/dsc11076jm.jpg

^ Looks so gorgeous.....:yes:

Should post more pics here. :)

View of Novena Skyline from the entrance of Tan Tock Seng Hospital.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v730/jonathantay/P1060102.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v730/jonathantay/P1060101.jpg

Singapore is simply gorgeous. :)

http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/9840/nvnite3mf.jpg

Taken by RafflesCity

Thanks Joe have you ever visited singapore?