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Apartment block becomes

1st class hotel

THE Equatorial Hotel at the corner of Bukit Timah Road and Stevens Road, a short distance from Singapore's golf courses, was originally planned as a multi-storey block of 59 luxury apart- ments.

Designs had been completed and the structure erected for a cross- shaped block with a central service core and one apartment per wing when in 1967, the Singapore Government in- troduced incentives to encourage the construction of new hotels.

LIM KAH NGAM (INVESTMENT) LTD.

IVERSEN, VAN SITTEREN & PARTNERS

CHARLES HO, Mrs. ONG

LIM KAH NGAM (S) LTD.

Mrs. LESLEY HO

Owners, Lim Kah Ngam (Invest- ment) Ltd., a sister company of Lim Kah Ngam (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., which had already constructed the Malaysia Hotel and commenced work on three other prominent hotels, were led to revise their intentions for the

owners

architects

architect team

builder

interior designer

site and in due course to instruct their architects to draw up new plans for a medium-sized hotel of about 200 bed- rooms. The architects were also asked to express climatic and architectural developments in the republic, and to provide the hotel with first class sup-

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