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The "Golden Mile" refers to the strip of [[land]] between [[Nicoll Highway]] and Beach Road. It was planned by the [[Singapore Government]] as a high-rise [[spine]] fronting [[Kallang Basin]]. The area used to be occupied by [[squatter]]s and small [[marine]] [[industries]]. |
The "Golden Mile" refers to the strip of [[land]] between [[Nicoll Highway]] and Beach Road. It was planned by the [[Singapore Government]] as a high-rise [[spine]] fronting [[Kallang Basin]]. The area used to be occupied by [[squatter]]s and small [[marine]] [[industries]]. |
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Built at a cost of [[S$]]18 million and completed in [[1973]], the 16-[[storey]] Golden Mile Complex is one of the early [[pioneer]]s of integrating mulitple [[operations]] into a single mixed-use development in Singapore. |
Built at a cost of [[S$]]18 million and completed in [[1973]], the 16-[[storey]] Golden Mile Complex is one of the early [[pioneer]]s of integrating mulitple [[operations]] into a single mixed-use development in Singapore. |
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A minor upgrading was carried out on the building in [[1983]], when [[tinted glass]] was added to the Beach Road [[façade]] to achieve the desired [[overall thermal transfer value]] rating. |
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==Architecture== |
==Architecture== |
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Template:Singapore building infobox Golden Mile Complex (Chinese: 黄金坊; pinyin: Huángjīn fāng) is a high-rise commercial and residential building on Beach Road in Kallang, Singapore. The building was formerly known as Woh Hup Complex.
History
In 1966, the Urban Renewal Department of the Housing and Development Board was formed to facilitate greater flexibility and autonomy in comprehensive redevelopment of Singapore's Central Area. The Golden Mile Complex was the result of the department's first Sales of Sites programme in 1967.
The "Golden Mile" refers to the strip of land between Nicoll Highway and Beach Road. It was planned by the Singapore Government as a high-rise spine fronting Kallang Basin. The area used to be occupied by squatters and small marine industries.
Built at a cost of S$18 million and completed in 1973, the 16-storey Golden Mile Complex is one of the early pioneers of integrating mulitple operations into a single mixed-use development in Singapore.
A minor upgrading was carried out on the building in 1983, when tinted glass was added to the Beach Road façade to achieve the desired overall thermal transfer value rating.
Architecture
The Golden Mile Complex is a commercial and residential development, providing offices, shopping, entertainment services and apartment living within its podium and stepped terrace structure.
With a height of 89 metres (292 feet), the Golden Mile Complex is an exemplary type of "megastructure" described by architectural historian, Reyner Banham. It is one of the few that have been actually realised in the world. Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate Fumihiko Maki had called the Golden Mile Complex a "collective form". It successfully propagates high-density usage and diversity under a broad range of ideas advanced by the Japanese Metabolist Movement of the 1960s. The complex was designed as a "vertical city", which stands in contrast to homogenised cities where functional zoning restrains all signs of the latter's vitality.
Conceived as a prototype for a lively environment, the design of the Golden Mile Complex was intended to catalyse urban development along Beach Road by employing an extruded section that would stretch along the East Coast facing the sea. The building is serviced from the rear with a Mass Rapid Transit line and a continuous pedestrian spine linking all buildings in the Golden Mile of Beach Road. The design was influenced by the linear city concepts of Le Corbusier and Arturo Soria y Mata.
The stepped profile of the Golden Mile Complex offers the occupants of the apartments on the upper floors a panoramic view of the sea and sky. All the apartments have balconies, and two-storey maisonette penthouses crown off the building. The narrowness of this sloping slab form enhances natural ventilation and shades a lofty communal concourse above the podium along Beach Road. The stepped design also reduces the impact of noise from the road traffic. The Golden Mile Complex preceded by several years avant-garde stepped-section buildings which were built in the United Kingdom and Europe.
The lower floors contain offices and a retail mall, located within staggered atria to allow natural light into the heart of the building.