People's Park Complex - People's Park Complex

People's Park Complex is a high-rise residential and commercial building in Singapore, located at Park Road, near Eu Tong Sen Road in Outram, in People's Park and next to Chinatown MRT station.

People's Park Complex is a project The commercial housing project was implemented by the newly formed Urban Renovation Division, part of the Housing and Development Board's Sale of Site program. The project was the subject of the program's first sale in 1967. Located at the foot of Pearl Hill, the site where the People's Park Complex currently sits is an open public park. It later became the People's Market or Pearl Market with its outdoor stalls destroyed by fire in 1966.

With a height of 103 meters (338 feet), the 31-storey building, People's Park Complex, is the first shopping mall of its kind in Southeast Asia and a model for the following retail growth. This is in Singapore. On April 21, 2010, a warehouse on the fifth floor caught fire, leading to a massive fire and forcing a large-scale evacuation. No one was injured in the incident, but significant soot damage and water leaks were reported by tenants.

In 1967, after the dissolution of Malayan Architects Co-Partnership, William Lim established Design Partnership (now DP Architects) with Tay Kheng Soon and Koh Seow Chuan. In the first year, the company succeeded with the architectural proposal for the People's Park Complex. The People's Park Complex is a large mixed-use development that includes offices and apartments above the podium of shopping space. The complex is envisioned as "a new nucleus in the whole fabric of the city's core", and is designed to revive one of the most traditional and densely populated residential areas in post-independence Singapore. As a 'home shopping mall', the complex is strategically located in one of the most densely populated areas in Singapore's central business district.

Ants The architecture of the complex has scored many firsts in Singapore. This is the closest place to Le Corbusier's ideal of high-rise living, as expressed in his Marseilles Unité d'Habitation, both in concept and form. Singapore's first "city room" or skylight incorporated shopping mall, a concept pioneered by several Japanese architects during the Metabolic Movement in the 1960s. 

The original exterior finish of the People's Park Complex was raw concrete, in keeping with the Brutalist architectural style. This is also reflected in the design of the towers and podiums, and the circular window panes atop the residential building. Today, the facade of the building has been painted green and maroon.