This picture was taken from the Padang (Malay for ‘flat field’) and shows the Old Supreme Court Building (centre). The structure was designed by Frank Dorrington-Ward, chief architect of the Public Works Department, and officially opened in 1939. It was to be the last classical-style structure erected in colonial Singapore. The building housed the Supreme Court until 2005, when the Court moved to the new Supreme Court Building located just behind the old building. Towering behind the Old Supreme Court Building was the 31-storey High Street Centre (background) residential, office and shopping complex, which was completed in 1974 as part of urban renewal plans for the city centre.
