Asia Insurance Building plaque : close-up [1]
- Streets and Places
- Arts
- Lee, Kip Lin
- Lee Kip Lin Collection
- 15 Aug 1993
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This 1993 photograph shows a plaque, located within the vicinity of the Asia Insurance Building at no.2 Finlayson Green. The plaque commemorates the opening of the building by Sir Robert Brown Black on 10th December 1955. The building was designed by Ng Keng Seng. Title devised by Library staff.
Credit Line
From the Lee Kip Lin Collection. All rights reserved. Lee Kip Lin and National Library Board, Singapore 2009.
Subjects
- Architecture and Landscape>>Architectural Styles
- Architecture and Landscape>>Building Types>>Commercial Buildings
- Plaques, plaquettes--Singapore--Photographs
- Architecture--Details--Photographs
- Commercial buildings--Singapore--Photographs
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Asia Insurance Building plaque : close-up [2] -
Asia Insurance Building five-foot way : general view -
Asia Insurance Building : general view [1] -
Asia Insurance Building, 1954 : general view -
Asia Insurance Building, 1954 : exterior -
Asia Insurance Building : general view -
Asia Insurance Building, 1956 : general view -
Asia Insurance Building : general view -
Partially constructed Asia Insurance Building in the 1950s : exterior -
Asia Insurance Building : general view -
Finlayson Green : general view [2] -
Finlayson Green : general view [3] -
Asia Insurance Building, 1950s : exterior [2] -
Asia Insurance Building, 1950s : exterior [1] -
Asia Insurance Building, 1950s : exterior [3] -
UOB Plaza in the 1970s : general view [1] -
Singapore waterfront in 1960 : panoramic view [1] -
Asia Insurance Building : exterior -
Singapore waterfront in 1960 : panoramic view [2] -
Montgomery Bridge plaque : close-up -
Finlayson Green building : general view -
Asia Insurance Building, 1960 : general view -
7th Storey Hotel : general view
Suggested Pictures from National Archives of Singapore
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Asia Insurance Building at 2 Finlayson Green, Singapore -
Asia Insurance Building at 2 Finlayson Green, Singapore -
Street scene at Shenton Way, with Development Bank of Singapore (DBS) Building on the top right, taken from park opposite Asia Insurance Building in Finlayson Green -
View of DBS Building (top left corner) along Shenton Way taken from park opposite Asia Insurance Building in Finalyson Green -
FINLAYSON GREEN WITH ASIA INSURANCE BUILDING IN THE CENTRE -
Singapore Waterfront view showing Fullerton Building (centre), Asia Insurance Building (extreme left), the tallest building in Southeast Asia upon its completion in 1954, and Anderson Bridge (right) -
COMMISSIONER GENERAL MALCOLM MACDONALD LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE OF THE ASIA INSURANCE BUILDING AT FINLAYSON GREEN. -
SINGAPORE RIVER - BOAT QUAY AND VIEW OF FIRST TALLEST BUILDING IN THE CITY, ASIA INSURANCE BUILDING -
ASIA INSURANCE BUILDING UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT FINLAYSON GREEN -
THE ASIA INSURANCE BUILDING UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT FINLAYSON GREEN -
ASIA INSURANCE BUILDING. -
ASIA INSURANCE BUILDING AND WATERFRONT, SINGAPORE -
THREE OF THE TWENTY-EIGHT CONCRETE CAISSONS BEING DRIVEN INTO FINLAYSON GREEN SITE OF PROPOSED ASIA INSURANCE BUILDING TO BEAR THE WEIGHT OF 270-FOOT-HIGH STRUCTURE -
Singapore River with Chinese tongkangs and sampans carrying merchandise. The two tallest buildings seen are Bank of China (left) and Asia Insurance building (right). -
VIEW OF THE SINGAPORE WATERFRONT, SHOWING OCEAN BUILDING AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF ASIA INSURANCE BUILDING. -
VIEW OF THE SINGAPORE RIVER WITH LIGHTERS DOCKED AT BOAT QUAY. THE TALL BUILDING IN THE BACKGROUND IS ASIA INSURANCE BUILDING. -
VIEW OF COLLYER QUAY WITH ASIA INSURANCE BUILDING IN BACKGROUND. -
Tongkangs lining Singapore River with Bank of China (tallest building on the left) and Asia Insurance Building (tallest building on the right) in the background -
Tongkangs lining Singapore River with Bank of China (tallest building on the left) and Asia Insurance Building (tallest building on the right) in the background -
View of Singapore River with Bank of China (tallest building on the left) and Asia Insurance Building (tallest building on the right) -
View of Singapore River with Bank of China (tallest building on the left) and Asia Insurance Building (tallest building on the right) -
Tongkangs lining Singapore River with Bank of China (tallest building on the left) and Asia Insurance Building (tallest building on the right) in the background -
Singapore waterfront with (from left to right) Asia Insurance building (tallest), Overseas Union Shopping Centre and Alkaff Arcade visible