Demolition in Singapore

[BikerPh0t0z]

Singapore is a rapid developing country. Its skyline is ever changing. As such, buildings are replaced as often as the country grows. The following are some of the buildings that receive this "penalty".

Tang Dynasty City.

The "couple"


..the ruin..


Many people in Stomp! always asking how the excavators go up onto roof of the buildings.
Well, heres how its done.


Another shot


The "demons"

[BikerPh0t0z]

The Pagoda Vs Mr Excavator


Going down..


Byebye Tang Dynasty City, we will miss you..

[BikerPh0t0z]

Public Housings

Even our houses werent spared. Fret not, we are given a new home in exchange. However memories never get exchanged. They remain part of history.

HDB at Kallang (Upper Boon Keng)

The quads


Standing Tall


Being wrapped..


Being torn down


Almost gone

[johnlim]

Singapore is a rapid developing country. Its skyline is ever changing. As such, buildings are replaced as often as the country grows. The following are some of the buildings that receive this "penalty".

Many people in Stomp! always asking how the excavators go up onto roof of the buildings.
Well, heres how its done.


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I was wonderintg why they take the trouble to do that. They could have blown up the whole pagoda and save a lot of time.


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[Kit]

Tang Dynasty was a failed kitsch to begin with. I'm not missing it.

[BikerPh0t0z]

I was wonderintg why they take the trouble to do that. They could have blown up the whole pagoda and save a lot of time.


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Hmm many people have the concept in their mind that demolishing building with explosives is blowing it up. Thats wrong. The explosives is to destroy the supports, therefore gravity will then force the building to come down. Just like someone using a rifle and shooting at ur knee. You will fall sideways once ur leg is shot. However the process is extremely complicated and expensive and dangerous.

There was once in Australia an old hospital was being imploded. The engineers used to much explosives. The explosives blew huge chunks of debris into the crowds who are watching in a distance. One girl was killed, many others injured.

Hence implosion was not used, and this method was used instead.

In the past, excavators and cranes arent so modern compared to now. Last time they used wrecking ball to demolish buildings. I witnessed one before when the factory opposite where i was living was being torn down. That was during 1995 or 1996. I was living in Hillview Avenue HDB then. Now even the HDB got torn down as well. *sigh*

[simpleton]

I can't comprehend why sg government loves to build (without thinking) and then demolish! so sick of it man. wasting all the resources n all! ughhh!

[Deyeno]

I have been in Singapore since 1990, and have witnessed the Singapore skyline change so much, and how much heritage of Singapore's past is left now?

The biggest travesty to me was the demolition and moving of the old Taman Sarasi food court, that place was known world wide, but had to make way for progress to improve the botanical gardens. Even the Adam court food court didnt survive, now all those good makan places either closed down or scattered to other parts of Singapore ....

No Kampongs left where the younger generation can see how it was in Singapore 50 to 60 years ago, or how or where their grandparents and parents lived.

The price of progress ....

Cheers ....

[wranger]

Used to loved Tang Dynasty. Too bad now is gone.

[xtemujin]

Many thanks for the photos.

Maybe you would like to join Skyscrapercity forum as there're a few of us who are in a mad rush trying to photograph old buildings here in Singapore before it being demolish.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=333

[Akatsuki]

Is that HDB estate being tore down near to the MRT station? Walk by it everyday when i got my 1st job at the nearby industrial estate... nostalgic sia!

[mlcy85]

Hmm many people have the concept in their mind that demolishing building with explosives is blowing it up. Thats wrong. The explosives is to destroy the supports, therefore gravity will then force the building to come down. Just like someone using a rifle and shooting at ur knee. You will fall sideways once ur leg is shot. However the process is extremely complicated and expensive and dangerous.

There was once in Australia an old hospital was being imploded. The engineers used to much explosives. The explosives blew huge chunks of debris into the crowds who are watching in a distance. One girl was killed, many others injured.

Hence implosion was not used, and this method was used instead.

In the past, excavators and cranes arent so modern compared to now. Last time they used wrecking ball to demolish buildings. I witnessed one before when the factory opposite where i was living was being torn down. That was during 1995 or 1996. I was living in Hillview Avenue HDB then. Now even the HDB got torn down as well. *sigh*

but they really could just push the crowds further back, and blow it up isn't it =D would be much more exciting (and less painful) than to see the excavators tearing it up brick by brick isn't it haha

[etegration]

Tang Dynasty was a failed kitsch to begin with. I'm not missing it.

no it wasn't. it had it's good days.

[9V-Orion Images]

no it wasn't. it had it's good days.

I remembered when i was kid, there was this "ghost house" or something and we had to listen to all these spooky recordings at tang dynasty.

[9V-Orion Images]

Some flats are being demolished at boon lay, not far from where i stay. Anyone planning to go there and capture some "dying moments"?

[BikerPh0t0z]

Many thanks for the photos.

Maybe you would like to join Skyscrapercity forum as there're a few of us who are in a mad rush trying to photograph old buildings here in Singapore before it being demolish.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=333

Your most welcomed. Yeah thanks for the link. I joined the forum already, before i joined here. The next HDB im going to hunt is Tanglin Halt, Queensway and Commonwealth there. Abt 7 blks(Tanglin Halt road) and 3 blks(Commonwealth & Queensway) are going to be demolished in 4 years time. They got this nostalgic lifts, tight corridors, patterned floor tiles, etc. Just plain beauty.

[BikerPh0t0z]

Is that HDB estate being tore down near to the MRT station? Walk by it everyday when i got my 1st job at the nearby industrial estate... nostalgic sia!

Yeah. Next to Kallang MRT. The area has been torn down and left empty for about 4mths now. And just so coincidence, the girl i liked used to live here. Now she shift to the new HDB which is just opposite this site. The pics are taken from these new blocks.

[BikerPh0t0z]

but they really could just push the crowds further back, and blow it up isn't it =D would be much more exciting (and less painful) than to see the excavators tearing it up brick by brick isn't it haha

Yeah. But i still prefer the wrecking ball. Excavators are damn boring. Best is you see the ball smack into the building and comes out the other side. I saw this before in 1995/1996. Then the operator managed to get the ball stuck on the building. Lucky he managed to take it out at the end.

[BikerPh0t0z]

no it wasn't. it had it's good days.

Agreed. I went there before the year 1999, and it used to be the place where all family gather together. Can see huge families gathering there. Now its just a barren land.

[BikerPh0t0z]

Some flats are being demolished at boon lay, not far from where i stay. Anyone planning to go there and capture some "dying moments"?

I maybe going soon. I just emailed the engineer of the demolition company and he said its alright to take photos of the jobsite, but should the photo be a defamation threat they can get a lawsuit at us. However he said its alright to take the photos for personal purpose.

I damn regret that i never get the chance to take the dying moments of the Outram Park HDBs aka Rainbow HDBs. Turns out my mum used to work there as well, now each time i pass by there im filled with regrets. However someone took some pics of it, as well as the demolition company. Here are some shots. Copyrighted photos, please do not use them for any purposes, i dont own these photos. Credits to the person who took them.

Outram Park HDB

And the photo taken by the demolition company.