Tiong Bahru
Tiong Bahru is a building area in the Bukit Mehra planning district of downtown Singapore .
history
In the 1920s, Tiong Bahru was the first publicly planned and built settlement project in the port and trading city of Singapore, which at that time still belonged to the British colony of Straits Settlements . The Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT), founded by the colonial authorities, was supposed to buy and level the area where one of the oldest temples in Singapore, the Heng San Teng , as well as numerous Chinese cemeteries were, and affordable and modern housing for the lower strata of the population erect. The cemeteries were exhumed and placed in other cemeteries. The name Tiong Bahru is derived from the word thióng (in the Hokkien language: cemetery) and bahru ( Malay for new): from around 1859 there was a Chinese cemetery named Thion Bahru here. In 1925 all the cemeteries and other buildings and structures in this area were classified as hazardous to health and part of a redevelopment area. The residents of the slums were relocated, the graves were reburied and the entire area was leveled by filling in soil and sand and prepared for building.
Development
The original development of Tiong Bahru in the 1920s comprised 30 apartment blocks with more than 900 residential units. The apartment blocks consist of two to five-storey apartments with three to five rooms each. In the years after the Second World War, high-rise buildings with rental and owner-occupied apartments were built on the main streets surrounding the district .
The architectural style was a mixture of elements of streamlined modernism and the local Straits Settlements architecture. The buildings have round balconies and flat roofs, they have spiral staircases and storage rooms in the basement. The exterior of the settlement from the 1920s still stands out pleasantly today from the mass quarters of the 1950s and 1960s.
Newer development
The city government improved the situation of the population in Tiong Bahru, which tripled after the Second World War. B. through the construction of a central market and the connection to the underground system Mass Rapid Transit System (MRT) of the city with one station of the east-west line .
The composition of the residents of the district changed with the move of wealthy residents to the outskirts of Singapore. At the same time, younger and creative people as well as foreigners moved to Tiong Bahru. Among other things, cafes and boutiques were created.
Since 2003, 20 apartment blocks from the pre-war development have been listed as well as 36 houses with shops on the road to the neighboring Outram district.
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://thelongnwindingroad.wordpress.com/tag/heng-san-teng/
- ^ Tiong Bahru , Report of the National Library Board, Government of Singapore, online at: eresources.nlb.gov.sg/...2010-08-11
- ↑ http://www.nhb.gov.sg/~/media/nhb/files/places/trails/tiong%20bahru/tiongbahru.pdf?la=en
- ↑ In the melting pot of the city in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung on November 6, 2016, page 52