Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Rediscover Singapore - Colonial Landmark

The Old Hill Street Police Station is a six-storey building and was built in a neoclassical style that characterised many public buildings in England during 1930. The facade is symmetrically designed with balconies, arcades, columns and rough surface masonry blocks. The building is structured into long thin blocks that surround two internal courtyards, outward, the view from each room faces the street and inward the courtyard. Altogether there are about 927 windows painted in rainbow colours. it was officially opened in 1934 and was the largest government building at that time and in 1998 the building was gazetted as a national monument.