Five Horse Road (Bencoolen Street)

Sunshine Plaza

Standing at 81, Bencoolen street and the opposite of Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts was once upon a time the site of our Registry of Vehicles (ROV), it's now a commercial building with residency. Famous for printing services and some food shop there are also toys that you can find. Directly behind is our Election Department. I could remember that I always find myself in the ROV for road-tax payment or making a transfer, due to my vocation as a staff of a freight forwarder company. Now ROV is known at the Land Transport Authority (LTA).

Election Department Building 

Five Horse Road (Bencoolen Street)

Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA)

NAFA offers a post-secondary arts institution in Singapore and had its location at 80, Bencoolen Street sits beside the newly constructed MRT Station. NAFA provides comprehensive arts and design education and also undergraduate degree programme. The institution had 3 campuses mainly for Design and Media, Fine Arts, 3D Design, Fashion, Arts Management programme, Dance, Theatre and Music. Behind Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts is GSM Building going for en bloc.

111, Middle Road (Hylam Jiak Quay 一街)

National Design Centre

The National Design Centre of Singapore is located in the arts, cultural, learning and entertainment district of Bugis-Bras Basah district. The complex is a focal point for all things design in Singapore and space where designers and business can exhibit their products and exchange ideas and even works. It occupies the 120 years old premises of the former St Anthon's Convent and it is also once home to the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) after they moved to their own building further down the road.

Bank of China-North Sub Branch Bugis

133, Middle Road 

Three Horse Road (Queen Street)

Carlo Catholic Society

Stood beside the Catholic Church of St. Peter and Paul is a non-profit organisation set up in 1996 as a society, their objective is to bring the Christian message of salvation to all people of goodwill to encourage beliefs to receive deeper Christian formation and promote spiritual growth.  They own a gift shop that sells religious articles and also publish a bi-weekly the Catholic Newspaper of Singapore Archdiocese 

Around Three & Four Horse Road (Queen Street & Waterloo Street)

Kum Yan Cantonese Methodist Church

The Church had its beginning in 1918 and was led by the founding member of the church led by Mr, Lam Lu Cheung and held their services in Yeung Ching School but in 1946 the pastor and the church had decided to buy a piece of land and to build their own named Kum Yan (感恩) 1 Queen Street was the plot of land that they had purchased and the building commence and was consecrated in December 1957.

The Catholic Centre

The Catholic Centre is a religious Centre in Singapore located at 55 Waterloo Street. It is a gathering place for Catholic and friends to share, to support, to learn and to grow in the spirit of love, joy and peace in each other through their faith. They also organise talks and events related to their faith and bad also a books rental services and knick-knack store.

SAM

Singapore Art Museum

Singapore Art Museum is at Bras Basah Road within the downtown civic district of Singapore. Home to the former a 19th Century Catholic School know as St. Joseph Institution. It is the first fully contemporary visual arts museum with the world's most important collections by local, South East Asia artists. The museum is presently closed for upgrading as I speak and will reopen in 2 years time from now.

Sam@8Q (8 Queen Street)

It is the annexe of the Singapore Art Museum also in the heart of the civic district it is a 4 storey building home to former primary school wing of the Catholic Chinese High School. It was first home to Kim Yan Cantonese Methodist Church and they ended their tenancy and was returned to Singapore Land Authority and later converted into a visual arts museum.

Queen Street

Church of St. Peter and Paul

One of the oldest Catholic Church in Singapore which catered to a predominantly Chinese congregation, it was built more than a century ago and located at 225A Queen Street.  The church underwent a series of expansion and renovation in the late 19th century and as of today as I wrote it still under renovation today the church is under the care of the Frides of the Discalced Carmelites

 

Grace (S.C.C) Church

The church was founded by Rev. Ho Yew Kin in 1950 due to the influx of immigrants from Hongkong and Guangdong Province of China and known as Grace Oversea Chinese Christian Church and had its premises at Chinese YMCA at Selegie Road. The language used in their services is Cantonese. In 1970 the church started fundraising to purchase a plot of land at 14 Queen Street where now the church stands they now had services in English and Madrian to serve the descendants of the older immigrants from Hongkong and China.