Daily Archives: 15 Nov 2009

14 HDB blocks in Jurong East to undergo lift upgrading

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Fourteen HDB blocks in Jurong East will undergo lift upgrading.

This was announced by Senior Minister of State for National Development, Grace Fu, at a community event on Sunday.

Ms Fu said blocks 103 to 116, which were built in the early 80s, will get their lifts upgraded.

She said: “For Jurong East Yuhua, this will be our second last precinct; we have one more precinct to go, we hope we are able to get it next year.”

Ms Fu had earlier joined some 1,000 residents, grassroots leaders and volunteers in the precinct in a mass cleanup of the neighbourhood as part of this year’s Clean and Green Week.

Ms Fu, who is also MP for Jurong GRC, said residents can do more to keep the estates clean.

The town council was asked to stop cleaning for one day to see the effect.

Ms Fu said: “It showed there was a lot of littering, especially high rise littering. So I think that is an area we can really focus on in terms of public education, as well as getting residents to play their part.”

The mass cleanup was the largest so far in Yuhua, taking place in seven zones involving 14 blocks.

Source : Channel NewsAsia – 15 Nov 2009

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What’s up at the bay

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Marina Bay, Singapore’s crown jewel, is slowly but surely taking shape

In 1992, there were plans for a landmark twin tower – Singapore’s tallest office buildings – just at the water’s edge in Marina Bay, soaring to as high as 80 storeys.

A model of the towers was even on exhibition in 1996 when plans were unveiled for the area.

Those monumental structures never quite materialised on the fringe of the waterfront. And it was probably a good thing: Imagine how people in the other buildings behind the two mammoth structures would have felt.

The new plan by Singapore’s urban planners was much more equitable: Let everyone have a piece of the bay views.

It was a rethinking that meant throwing out the original blueprint of densely developed buildings along the waterfront, and creating districts rather than block after block of commercial buildings.

And so it was mandated that waterfront developments should not rise above 50m in height, while buildings will step up gradually, much like how seats are arranged in a theatre.

When the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) was tasked with the job of planning for Singapore’s future land needs, it was not just about dumping soil into the sea to create more land.

The bigger challenge was sculpting the skyline, making sure it looks picture perfect on every postcard and tourist snapshot.

Meticulous planning

Marina Bay is, undoubtedly, Singapore’s crown jewel – arguably the most ambitious and longest-in- planning development the Government has ever undertaken.

An enormous amount of contemplation, engineering and investments has been poured into this prime plot, which the public had a glimpse of when Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong shared a fly-by video of it at his National Day Rally speech this year. In his rally speech in 2005, he gave a preview of the new Marina Bay, which was still at the drawing stage. Continue reading →

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