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Walking down memory lane in Orchard Road
4 NUS past, current students aim to tell shopping strip's tales via its architecture
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The first of three two-hour walking tours in the Orchard Road area was held yesterday. Here, the group is viewing an art installation outside Ngee Ann City mall titled Orchard: A Stroll Between Valleys.
ST PHOTO: ALPHONSUS CHERN
Jolene Ang
Wisma Atria is one of Orchard Road's main shopping malls, but the site where it stands used to house Wisma Indonesia - a building with a Balinese-style roof and carved murals that until 1982 housed Indonesia's embassy, national airline Garuda's office and a hotel popular with visitors from the country.
Meanwhile, underneath Singapore's main shopping street runs a canal that carries rainwater out to sea, while the road itself got its name from the nutmeg and fruit orchards that were once located there.
