The Bras Basah Complex houses many of the old-time Chinese bookstores and stationery stores which shifted from Cross Street when the government forced a move-out some time in the late seventies.
Today, the traditional continues. Bookstores stocking books in Chinese are still located in this grey early eighties complex as well as shops stocking art supplies.
There is a block of public housing above the complex. Otherwise, commercial complexes with flats of this type are the common in Singapore, for instance, the now demolished Ellenborough Market near the Singapore River.
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What are those things sticking out of the windows ?
These are nice pictures by the way !!
Point defence lasers!
Heheh. No, they are just poles with clothes being hung out to dry.
Thanks. Just a bunch of images of the urban landscape here. Will post more.
purely fyi, but sorry Shyuech: PageOne at VivoCity has a decent Chinese collection.
There was a Chinese bookstore on the ground floor of the Paragon some years ago. Expensive decor and all. Needless to say, it disappeared quickly.
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