Where is tiong bahru singapore

By , the SIT has completed flats, 54 tenements, and 33 shops, creating homes for 6, people. World War II put a halt to the development project, but it quickly resumed post-war.

By the late s, the population at Tiong Bahru was estimated to be about 20, residents living in over 2, units. The two to five-storey walk-up apartment blocks today form a temporary escape from the busy streets and skyscrapers of central Singapore. They were indeed, designed to resemble automobiles, ocean liners, and aeroplanes with their sweeping aerodynamic lines. Designed with a popular architectural style in the s and 30s, the blocks featured a modified form of the Streamline Moderne style, a late development of the Art Deco movement.

Singapore Improvement Trust An early street sign of Tiong Bahru Road dating to the early-mid 20th century. Yeo, G. Worst inferno.

The Singapore Free Press , p. Lee, S. Heart and soul. Ng, T. He wants to put Tiong Bahru on world map. The New Paper , p. Charms of Tiong Bahru. Lou, K. Chan, K. Aeroplane towers haven for good-time girls.

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Sign Up. Travel Guides. Videos Beyond Hollywood Hungerlust Pioneers of love. Art Deco district of Tiong Bahru, Singapore. Jaclynn Seah. Appreciate the art deco architecture. Take your own heritage tour. Go mural hunting. Immerse yourself in Singaporean literature. Indulge in some nostalgia. Go cafe hopping. From hairstyling, shaving, brow threading and even waxing, fulfil all your grooming needs here! They take grooming very seriously and offer a wide range of grooming products for sale for every hero to replicate his experience at home!

Opening Hours: Weekdays, 11am to 9pm Weekends, 10am to 8pm. The buildings here have gone through several facelifts but much of its low-rise pre war buildings have been honored and preserved. Just like everything else in Tiong Bahru, there is a story behind these establishments. The architecture is a blend of local and foreign and take inspiration from public British housing. Designed in a unique horse-shoe shape and accompanied by spiral staircases and courtyards, these buildings make an aesthetically pleasing backdrop for your ootd.

You can find architecture like these at every corner of Tiong Bahru — this photo was taken in Lim Liak St! To the unsuspecting public, the last thing anyone would expect to find hidden in the traditional Hua Bee Coffee Shop is a bar. Located right at the back of the coffee shop, Bincho shares the same premises as the coffee shop but is nicely camouflaged and out of plain sight.

As a Japanese bar, they serve interesting dishes such as Hokkaido Tofu — a tofu dish in the shape of the Hokkaido island and the usual yakitori sticks. Some drinks that can compliment your food are their seasonal Yukishibori Sake, Raspberry cocktail and Cinnamon cocktail.

Address: , 78 Moh Guan Terrace, Tuesdays to Sunday, 7. Bincho Opening Hours:. Enjoyed your trip down to the Trick-Eye Museum? The murals in Tiong Bahru make a budget-friendly alternative and are an interesting way to see how life in Singapore was 40 years ago. There is also an interesting side story and poem that comes with each mural for those who like to soak up in a cultural experience. This scene is one of him promoting the Speak Mandarin Campaign in and includes his good friend, Margaret Thatcher!

This mural was painted after a favourite pastime in Tiong Bahru — sipping coffee in bird singing competitions.