Tan Boon Liat Building: From its unusual beginning to an uncertain future
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Built in 1976, the 15-storey Tan Boon Liat Building in Outram Road was put up for public tender on Feb 3. The minimum asking price is $1.15 billion and the tender closes on March 18.
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SINGAPORE – The possibility of Tan Boon Liat Building being demolished is a “very sad” one for Mrs Judy Chok, the widow of architect Chok Yan Hoi, who designed the building in the 1970s.
“I guess I’m being sentimental. One has to embrace change, but sometimes I feel we shouldn’t change for change’s sake,” the 83-year-old tells The Straits Times on the phone. “But I’m grateful I can still go down to certain places and still have fond memories, and see the legacies he left behind for us.”