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

http://img101.exs.cx/img101/7734/skylinefromtp2.jpg

amazing indeed :D

i can only see a very very tiny bit of road at the bottom of the picture.. how cute! its like some bjork song where nature takes over the city..

what's that tall apartment block to the left of the pic?

Sweet!! ;)

I believe that tall building is the Ansley. It is not very tall...just 30 floors, but I think its built on a hill, thats why?

yup the view was amazing! The 40 storey HDBs will enjoy such views.

Yup the Ansley is on a hill and I havent been near it but it does look like a gorgeous castle. I like the temple in the pic btw :cool:

i see.. it looks like a hdb flat! but it's unusual for a hdb flat to be alone... they ussually attack in hordes.

Attack. :lol: I have been inside that temple btw...

And from which block was the photo taken?

The block just facing the site where the old long HDB building used to be (which is now a site for future development)

Very cool pic. Pictures like this that show some scale with the main skyline in the background are my favorite. :cool:

*cry* I miss the view from my old classroom..... :lol: The residents of those flats are so lucky...

you moved out already?!

oh well too bad but you did post some nice views from your old sch :yes:

2 recent ones reposted:

1.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v133/RafflesCity/tpnitelites4.jpg

2.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v133/RafflesCity/tpnitelites.jpg

Cool! Could have merged the two to make a pano? :D

Thanks!

I think this one is better than the first.

I wanted to do pano, unfortunately its not that nice cos the first pic was zoomed in.

I will make a pano nevertheless of the overall scene :cool:

Cool views. 1 Moulmein looks like an old 70's flat in the pic :D

PLEASE PLEASE tell me which exact address is that picture taken from!!! Looking at the view, dense urbanism comes to mind and the soundtrack of 2046 slips in through the crack of the door! this scene is so crying out for a film! I need to film its urban richness over a sunset. in grimy sepia tone. thanks!

Thanks baq and welcome to SSC Singapore forum nicholasliha! :okay:

I took this from the top corridor of the old HDB Block immediately behind the massive construction site near Toa Payoh Central. (that site used to have a very old long HDB block that was demolished). Hope that helps :)

what are you filming?

Thanks baq and welcome to SSC Singapore forum nicholasliha! :okay:

I took this from the top corridor of the old HDB Block immediately behind the massive construction site near Toa Payoh Central. (that site used to have a very old long HDB block that was demolished). Hope that helps :)
Er..how about the block number? Its not easy trying to decipher your codes! ;)

And what a splashing entry to the forums, nicholasliha! Hope you make this your daily abode as we have made it ours too! :wave: :D

erm I'm basically bad at block numbers as I dont look at the block number but just look to go up a block.

Anyway if I get the street directory I'll give the exact number but my explanation should be clear enough! @_@

haha crap! isn't toa payoh ONE BIG construction site? hmmm.... gosh but the view can die for. its the temple lah! it makes you imagine a religious underground in the heartless modernity of Singapore. YA!!! thank you! but can give directions from toa payoh mrt? or the library square? do you live in tp?

Hey! Are you new around here? Haha! Welcome!

Hello! I'm new here! YEah, can't believe i spent the earlier part of my life ignorant of this brilliant place on the web. I just found the VIEW! THE VIEW!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/nicholasliha/toaview.jpg

I anyhow chuang the nearest flat from Toa Payoh MRT and found it. SO LUCKY!

This view is particularly mesmerising because of the Temple dome thingey. The religious dimension is just so simmering with seductive mystery. And now, I am looking for this next view:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/nicholasliha/img34045.jpg

Any idea what christian church that is lighted in blue in the middle?! WHERE CAN I FIND THIS VIEW!?!

Wouldn't it be nice next to locate urban shots of the skyline with religious edifices in perspective? Got temple, got church, can get hindu temple and mosque next not? OK ok CMIO categorisation of culture and ethnicity in Singapore is not a very good thing, so maybe if you can find parsi temple and bahai temple and even theravana buddhist lodge also can. Can anyone suggest locations? Thanks!

That place near novena is nice. Dunno the road name. Turn left after Novena Square along Thomson Road heading towards the city.

That place near novena is nice. Dunno the road name. Turn left after Novena Square along Thomson Road heading towards the city.

Huh? Are you referring to the pic with the blue church in it? the view comes from novenA?

Nah. I was just saying that there's this place with a chinese temple, church and mosque right next to each other, or something like that. Haha.

Congrats nicholas on the view! :banana:

The night shot is indeed mesmerizing with the Buddhist temple lit up like that, as you can see.

As for that 2nd pic, I'm not sure where its from, looks like it might have been taken near Mount Faber or one of the towers there? That church in blue is incredible! I think its the St Theresa's Convent.

Actually many religious monuments here are lit up spectacularly at night and there are some pics in this forum with religious structures juxtaposed with the modern skyline. Try to find them :D

http://img160.exs.cx/img160/6130/novenareduced7ct.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v606/redstone/hdbtop.jpg
Unique top floor holds..............
A viewing gallery!
For visiting world leaders.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v606/redstone/viewinggallery.jpg
^Notice anything unusual? ;)

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19990000224-8309-3292-1086/img0097.jpg

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19990000224-8309-3292-1086/img0099.jpg

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19990000224-8309-3292-1086/img0102.jpg

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19990000224-8309-3292-1086/img0100.jpg

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19990000224-8309-3292-1086/img0103.jpg

WOW

I have never come across a HDB flat with a viewing gallery!

Its a place to show off for world leaders wanting to learn about public housing here huh :P

they should build the gallery on the 40th floor of the new blocks

any views from up there?

No... Those are the good ones from A2O...

Another viewing gallery, this time in Bishan. Not sure where, though.
Perhaps Cliff knows? ;)
Cliff???
http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980007518-8262-3202-2085/img0075.jpg

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980007518-8262-3202-2085/img0073.jpg

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980007518-8262-3202-2085/img0076.jpg

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980007518-8262-3202-2085/img0079.jpg

:eek:

amazing

i noticed that the first batch of pics are quite old..all those old flats surrounding have been demolished for the 40-storey blocks...miss that long curved block

Block 79 is very big, a landmark of the area.

The odd thing about it is that the lift buttons are so high up...
Had difficulty reaching it when I was little...

The odd thing about it is that the lift buttons are so high up...
Had difficulty reaching it when I was little...

hmm..doesnt seem odd to me..if you were little back then :D

Sorry, I don't know where, the roof pattern is sooo strange, very unlike the prism roofs of bishan buildings. But at least I know that this building is between 20 and 25 stories. Who is the woman btw? I thought it was QE2:D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v606/redstone/orchardsky.jpg

Hmm....so its at block 79? The first one that is.

No, Block 81. ;)

Sorry, I don't know where, the roof pattern is sooo strange, very unlike the prism roofs of bishan buildings. But at least I know that this building is between 20 and 25 stories. Who is the woman btw? I thought it was QE2:D

I very much believe its her..I also think those are not so recent pics :yes:

Yesterday I walked a path that I had not walked in over 7 or 8 years. Behind the construction site. Several paths used to link 79 with the flats behind. A green strip of parkland, with a playground or two.

So nostalgic...

wow you really are a prolific picture taker!

I can take UNBLOCKED views of Orchard! :D

I know what building is the second one already!

and its not in bishan!

Its one of the HDB blocks in Ang Mo Kio, the only old 25 stroey building with the slopped roof.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v606/redstone/ttshcbd.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v606/redstone/swisscloud.jpg
^:eek:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v606/redstone/pearllandmarkcranettsh.jpg
Pearlbank and Landmark.
See the harbour cranes? ;) :D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v606/redstone/comttsh.jpg
Comcentre from Novena

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v606/redstone/artc.jpg
Ayer Rajah Telcoms Tower from Novena ( :eek: )

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/redstone2/tpyskyline.jpg

what exactly is that u/c?

CHIJ. :D

but they just moved into their campus in 1985!

this must be a different branch :PP

Oh, no...
It IS CHIJ main schools.:D

Now the sec sch's been relocated to the former Thomson Sec campus. ;)

Nice pictures Redstone! :)

From blocks 103 and 102 Jalan Rajah. Someone try to take better shots! :banana::D
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/redstone2/jrdense2.jpg
^South direction 1

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/redstone2/jrdense.jpg
^South direction 2

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/redstone2/jrpano3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/redstone2/jrpano2.jpg
Toa Payoh

:lol: you bring us there la... ;)

The views are very limited. The point blocks have the same view. They're shaped like a '5' with corners. Only the internal corridors have views, and only a few metres viewing space... :(

well... u asked "someone" to try better shots... and u have the title "awesome ...."

So contradicting... ah? :D

make it super-awesome lor! :D
Awesome views, but quality of photos not good...

hmmm... thought you said views "limited"? Is it worth the effort and time? :)

@redstone

angry with me? :)

Hope this picture will make you happier ;)
http://img119.exs.cx/img119/7185/dscn07074aj.jpg

nice pictures redstone & hyacinthus!:)

these views are good....in fact I have a pano from up there I'll post later

you can get a good view of the deRoyale site from up there :yes:

wow..i just realized Capitol Building & SMRT HQ compliment each other! :eek:

Haha I think SMRT is trying to mimic the former. :D

Anyway, that point block only have 4 small windows offering views, right?

Some of my contribution. Taken just after sunrise, some areas are still rather foggy....

http://www.vmaxxum.com/40storey/40a.jpg
http://www.vmaxxum.com/40storey/40b.jpg
http://www.vmaxxum.com/40storey/40c.jpg
http://www.vmaxxum.com/40storey/40d.jpg
http://www.vmaxxum.com/40storey/40e.jpg
http://www.vmaxxum.com/40storey/40f.jpg
http://www.vmaxxum.com/40storey/40g.jpg

If one could stand in the middle of the road, with no cars, the shot would be so cool! :cool:

great pics and
welcome! :banana2: :cucumber: :pepper: :carrot: :banana:

welcome to the forum, maxxum, and awesome PICS! :eek:

Thanks guys :) Hehehez

Hoarding in the process or removal from the site!!! :banana:

View at night... Welcome home !

http://home4.pacific.net.sg/~jihadi/2005blk152a40tp.JPG

Views in contradiction - combined.

http://home4.pacific.net.sg/~jihadi/2005blk152dn40tp.jpg

Welcome OffPeakClassic8... :hi:

Those were very interesting posts/pictures!

Taken from your Toa Payoh new flat? Congratulations! ;)

I can see you vaguely in the pic :colgate:

Might be possible, the crossroad here is rather pedestrian-friendly comparatively with Singapore's average ^^

Welcome OffPeakClassic8!!! :cool:

those pics are splendid!

I've been going all the way to the 40th floor just to admire the views from there :D

:applause:!!!!

Welcome to the forums! ;)

A peek into the living room of one of the units on the 40th floor.

http://img78.exs.cx/img78/9281/tp40room3jd.jpg

Looking North

@redstone, can your house be seen now?

http://img198.exs.cx/img198/3339/northpano29ab.jpg
Wow thats cool! :eek:

^

Thanks :cool:

Here is a view looking East. Your house might be in it?

http://img91.exs.cx/img91/8405/tpne2qq.jpg

Old pic leh...
At least 2 months ago....

^

what are the dramatic changes?

The block on the right with the external staircase and yellow rear.............

The staircase was covered with blue panels about 1 month or so ago.... :D

Now cannot see Shuang Lin... :bash:

didnt know they were so quick to cover up the staircase to 'upgrade'. You are sharp! :eek:

I wonder why......
It looks so ugly covered up....

omg! thats the same pic i had in my dream (yea, i dream of cities and skyscrapers)

seriously, thats weird, the exact same view in the first pic!

:eek:
:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?:?

omg! thats the same pic i had in my dream (yea, i dream of cities and skyscrapers)

seriously, thats weird, the exact same view in the first pic!

maybe its not so weird, I have posted that pic in the world forums before! :lol:

A peek into the living room of one of the units on the 40th floor.

http://img78.exs.cx/img78/9281/tp40room3jd.jpg

Strangely, the view does not seem to be from very high up.

^

I guess its the perspective. Compare it with those trio of 25-storey blocks in front though :yes:

ahh, yes. Actually, they can improve the design so much by moving the glass inwards to form a balcony.

ahh, yes. Actually, they can improve the design so much by moving the glass inwards to form a balcony.

then the living room would be REALLY REALLY small!

New flats are so small... :rant:

On a clear day, you can see JB

11 Apr 05

Couple enjoy the penthouse view from their $240,000 four-room flat

By Krist Boo

RETIRED seamstress Chow Chee Peng, 64, squinted out of the window, looking for the clock tower.

http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/mnt/media/image/launched/2005-04-11/sin11.jpg

Her husband of over 30 years, retiree Ow Kim Soo, 67, put a hand on her shoulder and pointed to the white column of Raffles Institution, the size of a matchbox on the horizon.

Since moving into their new four-room Toa Payoh flat a week ago, discovering new landmarks from their windows has become a daily pastime for the couple.

On a clear day, they can see MacRitchie Reservoir and enjoy a sweeping view of Bishan, stretching all the way to Johor Baru.

Likewise, their neighbours across them in the block enjoy a postcard view of the business district set against a misty backdrop of the Indonesian islands.

The Ows are among the first households to be living on the highest floor of Singapore's tallest HDB blocks to date - four 40-storey blocks housing 930 units at Toa Payoh Lorong 2.

The flats were launched by National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan last Thursday.

Madam Chow, speaking in Mandarin, said with a laugh: 'When the minister visited, he said we had a million-dollar view.

'We like it a lot. It's quiet. The air is good. And you don't have to worry about neighbours upstairs dirtying your laundry.'

It took the couple, who have no children, four years to ballot and wait for their new flat's completion. Their earlier flat, located nearby, was repossessed en bloc for redevelopment.

It has been worth the wait. Said Mr Ow: 'It's beautiful at night. You can see the lights of the buildings and cars.'

The 86 sq m flat cost them $240,000, a far cry from the $7,800 they paid for their first flat, a three-room unit, in 1968.

But they have no complaints about the price, which could have got them a five-room flat in another area.

From home, it is only about 10 minutes on foot to Toa Payoh Central. It is a 15-minute walk to the MRT station, and just five minutes more to MacRitchie Reservoir, where they go on their hour-long jogs on most days.

The ride up to their flat by lift - there are two - takes 40 seconds.

Being at the top has given the Ows what architects call the 'penthouse factor' for much less than the cost of a similar private development.

Two property valuers estimate that a condominium unit of the same size, in the same area, would cost between $400,000 and $500,000 - about twice the price the Ows paid.

Architect Goh Chong Chia said the skyscrapers boost the image of HDB living. 'You are living in an almost exclusive zone.'

Fellow architect John Ting said: 'The view is fantastic, the ventilation good. There are no mosquitoes, no cockroaches.'

The HDB should build more skyscraper flats at sites near parks and water, or at spots where heights make sense, he added.

With Singapore's population expected to climb from the current four million to 5.5 million in half a century, architects have long held that building upwards for HDB flats, where over 80 per cent of Singaporeans live, is one way to solve the land crunch.

The HDB is indeed going along that route. By 2010, it will launch the 50-storey Pinnacle@Duxton, seven blocks of flats near Tanjong Pagar MRT station.

Those will then be the tallest HDB blocks.

But it will still be dwarfed by private residential development The Sail@Marina Bay, to be completed by 2009, which will be 70 storeys high.

The Ows, who said they have slept 'like babies' since moving in, are advocates for more high-rise HDB flats.

Madam Chow said: 'When you get bored at night, just look out of the window, you'll forget your boredom or worries.'

Tallest HDB blocks of the time

# Forfar House in Queenstown built by the Singapore Improvement Trust, in 1956: 14 storeys

# Block 9 Selegie House at Selegie in 1963: 20 storeys

# Three blocks at Marine Parade in 1974: 25 storeys

# Bishan Heights in 1996: 30 storeys

# Four blocks at Toa Payoh Lorong 2 in 2005: 40 storeys

# Pinnacle@Duxton at Tanjong Pagar by 2010: 50 storeys

Highest private homes

# International Plaza at Tanjong Pagar in 1976: 50 storeys

# Queens condominium at Stirling Road in 2003: 38 storeys

# Icon condominium, to be ready next year: 46 storeys

# The Sail@Marina Bay, to be ready by 2009: 70 storeys

Nice article :-)
Are the blocks at Queenstown and Selegie still there ?

speaking of Selegie...do you mean those famous red and white blocks?

I noticed that the light green building next to Peace Mansions is now boarded up...I wonder if they are going to demolish it. Well they should because it is so ugly!

Oh, yeah, I'm even wondering if it might be the block from which we took the pics of Lasalle university construction site ^^ I didn't realize, lol, from the outside it doesn't look 40 years old at all ^^

About the 1956 one, I found Forfar square on the citymap, but it happens to be just where the Queenstown 40-storeys HDB now are. So maybe this one is gone ?

probably...I'm not familiar with Queenstown except that its one of the pioneer HDB estates :cool:

Forfar House is gone, accoding to Kelvin Ang... :cry:

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/PCD0066-6319-6319-0066/img050.jpg

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/PCD0066-6319-6319-0066/img053.jpg

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/19980000898-8514-3112-3147/img0021.jpg

If one could stand in the middle of the road, with no cars, the shot would be so cool! :cool:

Aiyo.....so dangerous........:eek:

One in three HDB dwellers ready to give high life a try

22 Jun 05

View, breeze, lack of noise, 'top-of-the-world' feeling cited as reasons

By Daryl Loo

ON A clear day, Mrs Joanna Wong can see as far as Changi Airport control tower from her 40th-floor flat in Toa Payoh.

'The view is great, I can see almost the whole of Singapore. And being so high up makes me feel I have a lot of privacy,' said the 48-year-old mother of two, whose family moved into their new top-floor flat a month ago.

Living so high is new in Singapore and an HDB survey has found that Mrs Wong typifies the one in three HDB dwellers who is willing to live on the 40th storey or higher.

The main reasons: a great view, cool breeze, lack of noise and that 'top-of-the-world' feeling.

Mrs Wong's block in Toa Payoh Lorong 2 is one of four such highrises completed this year that are now the HDB's tallest flats.

This record will be broken in 2010 when 50-storey blocks at Pinnacle@Duxton are completed.

Living on high floors has gained acceptance in Singapore, according to the latest HDB Sample Household Survey, done in 2003.

The results, released on Monday, show that 58 per cent of residents are prepared to live on the 12th storey or higher. This can be compared to 1978, when 80 per cent preferred to live between the first and 11th floors.

The survey, done every five years, also found that more residents find the noise from their surroundings tolerable or minimal: 86 per cent compared to 83 per cent in 1998.

Experts said the findings indicate that residents have become more accepting of living in high-rise, high-density homes. This will give urban planners an impetus to build taller blocks that are closer to each other.

This will help optimise Singapore's limited land resources, they said.

Besides, building upwards is necessary to accommodate Singapore's projected long-term population of 5.5 million, said Associate Professor Chan Yew Lih, lecturer in architecture and urban design at the National University of Singapore (NUS).

She suggested that future 'super' high-rise blocks be located in or near the Central Business District 'to capitalise on the infrastructure and proximity to employment centres'.

This means residents won't have to deal with traffic jams, she said.

Prof Chan foresees a new challenge for planners: how to balance these super high-rise buildings with existing high-rise, medium-rise and low-rise developments so the Singapore skyline can be 'richer and more exciting'.

Assistant Professor Muhammad Faishal of the NUS Department of Real Estate is convinced the trend upwards will lead the HDB to tap the expertise of the private sector.

He gave the example of Pinnacle@Duxton. Its design was derived from a competition open to foreign architects.

Also, the HDB has launched a trial programme in which private developers can design, build and even price and sell its flats.

'With more private sector involvement, residents can look forward to flats that are better designed, and have better landscaping and features than today,' Prof Muhammad said.

Dentist Choy Keen Meng, 30, who has picked a 49th-storey unit at Pinnacle@Duxton, is among the new breed of HDB dwellers who are itching to live way up there.

He said: 'I can already imagine what the view will be like. My only grouse is we have to wait five years for the flats to be ready.'

Make me feel like nostagic !
Which year??
I think it shld be before I was born !

:runaway:

Forfar House is gone, accoding to Kelvin Ang... :cry:

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/PCD0066-6319-6319-0066/img050.jpg

http://picas.nhb.gov.sg/data/tn_pcd/PCD0066-6319-6319-0066/img053.jpg

those flats looks really slim with round edges, very special but sad its gone...

More of Redstone's favourite views

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/5358/tpy38br.jpg

Some more...
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/5100/tpy29st.jpg

Night view:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v133/RafflesCity/tp40view.jpg

So dense.....:cool:

that crown looks great on suntec towers...

Now imagine the scene with the future Singapore Flyer....

will the sg flyer be taller than 40 stories?

n love the pix of the CBD at night, so nice!

Thanks :cool:

The Flyer should be about the same height as Suntec City...so that would be about 45 storeys

TOA PAYOH, THE hometown of BUILDER1010! I was born in Toa Payoh Hospital!
i use to stay there, block 1 from 1976 to 1989.
during the national day that time, my dad always brought me up to the top of the blk for a good view of the fire works!

I like the light from ORQ. Alluring aqua blue. nice.

25 Apr 2006

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/3010/tpy2a4ah.jpg

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/3820/tpy1a8sc.jpg

Those are some pretty nice and slightly different angles.

Where were they taken from?

The last pano provides a nice glimpse of the central catchment area :)

The answer is obvious to you, isn't it? ;)

HDB Hub ?

recent panorama

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

^ Stunning.....:okay:

Thanks!

Misty City
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e126/ylstan02/Toa%20Payoh/DSC_0062.jpg

Views of City from Toa Payoh (after a downpour)...:)
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/3875/dsc0057kb3.jpg

(Sori for the lousy quality as it is taken without tripod....:) )

Great density shots!

The purplish hue is awesome!

The purplish hue is awesome!

Thanks.....:D

Very mystical!

Dark afternoon

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v427/rotpics03/tpwpp.jpg