Title
Block 75 Commonwealth Drive, built 1962
Creator
Year/Period
2015
Region
Singapore
Object Type
digital photographic prints, digital fine art prints
Material
paper (fiber product), colour (pigment), ink
Technique
photographic processes, photographic printing techniques
Dimension
Image size: 60.0 x 90.0 cm
Accession No.
2020-00242
Collection of
Credit Line
Acquired with support from Mr Tsai Eng Rung
NLB Type
Sculpture
Blocks 74 to 80 Commonwealth Drive were one of the first public housing blocks built by the HDB under its first Five Year Programme. They are located in Queenstown, Singapore’s first satellite town, and were depicted on the one-dollar note of the Orchid Series (Singapore’s first currency series) in 1967. Colloquially known as the Tanglin Halt chup lau chu (’10 storey flats’ in Hokkien), the construction of these flats sought to alleviate the overcrowding problem in Chinatown in the 1960s.
