The concourse building... an icon ahead in its time.

This picture is taken of the concourse in the valley of old shop backlane along syed alwi road. This was an high rise office block completed in the mid-80's and it can be considered as a towering one along the beach road sector. One can also quickily spotted it off the kallang basin,Tg rhu coastline.                                                          If you could fast forward the year to 2004, please compare this architectural style to that of Taipei 101 tower, there is a resemblance of the protruding layered flooring design in both buildings.  So, an icon in the 80's could still be a relevant reference for one skyscapper in the 2000's.

Iconic view from the old general post office building...

On a lazy afternoon in early september, 2009.  I was with a few classmates who were guided to the rooftop of the now fullerton hotel... who in its colonial and post independant days; was the GPO building, alias the General Post Office Building.

Those were the old days when computers and handphone are not the available choice of communications. It is by postal mails and telexes which relates one to another from different lands as well as within the country.  So, the GPO is kind of a nerve centre of communciations when people strolled in and out to check their mails... by collecting or sending out physical envelopes and documents and parcels...

Then, as technology grows, and town planning evolves... Places can be swopped for its functions. GPO's function is now located at SingPost Centre in outskirt Eunos district which still handle physical mails. People did not have to galvanised solely there to communicate as the use of those wireless mobile phone and pc do away alots of the pen and paper letter writing stuff... although there are strong interest groups that still writes and request for stamps pasted envelopes for hobby sake.

The GPO place had been refurbished as a 6 star hotel called the Fullerton hotel.  It would be a disgrace to tear down this majestic marblelite building builded by indian convicts in the early 1930's. So, a local investor, Mr Ng Teng Fong bought and use this building as a hotel.

The iconic sea view buildings are around this rooftop view which they called it the lighthouse.  On the left, we started with the Raffles City cluster, the tallest hotel building in singapore, completed in 1986, then also known as Raffles Sogo..;  Next, you have the Suntec convention cluster owned by lee kah shing of hongkong, completed in the mid 1990's...  Fronting it is the Esplanade House, completed in early 2000,... wonder why the government consent it to be nicknamed the durian... just because the media precited it as such...;  The last and much heralded Sand Intergrated Resort with 3 main tower bridging by a sky garden will be ready by 2010.

So, will another 10 years pass by and if chance permit, I hope to take the same angle shots from this place again and see what GPO see since 1930 till 2020...:)