Nowhere do you find old buidings being demolished, and being replaced by new ones within short period of time, except in Singapore.
Every 5-10 years, new buildings will sprout out suddenly. Old schools which have been left idle, or sometimes used as holding schools, will be demolished and replaced by new schools. These old buildings are not that old, some not more than 20-30 years.
Why such a haste to discard "old buildings"?
The historic brick public houses @ Dakota Crescent - one of the pioneer rented houses in Singapore history, have been ear-marked for re-development many years back. There were protests initially, lamenting our lost of heritage with the demolition of the old brick houses. The old tenants were relocated to other places many years ago, and the place was left dormant for a quite a few years. And finally, the demolition works started over the past one month.
Up till now, it is still not clear what the authority intends to do with this vast piece of land after the demolition.
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