Daily Photo – Boat Quay

Here’s a wider shot of the image I posted yesterday. The OCBC Bank Building is on the left, the SingTel Pickering Operations Complex is on the right and in the middle is the International Plaza. While the OCBC Bank and SingTel buildings are about 1,000 feet away, the International Plaza is a little under a mile away.

As I mentioned yesterday, about a month after I took this photo, the restoration order was published in the paper and over the next several years they set about restoring this row of former warehouses and stores into cafes, bars and shops. If you were to look at the same view today, you’d notice many of the roof lines remain the same but there’s a degree more homogenization and cleanliness about the place. No more bushes growing in the gutters.

You won’t, however, get to see the International Plaza. The space between the OCBC complex and the Pickering Complex and the International Plaza has been filled in with many more skyscrapers in the intervening years.

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