Can you guess what Singapore building this is a sketch of? Hint: It was once a site of bombing.
Okay, the clue was probably a bit too obvious. It’s the MacDonald House at Dhoby Ghaut (not to be confused with the restaurant with the golden arches). I didn’t realise that the MacDonald House was gazetted as a national monument. Tia shares this sketch and description of Dhoby Ghaut on Urban Sketchers:
‘Dhoby’ is an Anglo-Indian word refers to laundrymen and ‘Ghaut’ means ‘beside the river’. In our early history, it was a place where laundries were done and dried in a big field by the Indians who immigrated to Singapore. Dhoby Ghaut is today a name for a major Mass Rapid Transit Station in a fascinating district located at the end of the famous Orchard Road, our major retail and entertainment hub like the Rodeo Drive in LA, Ginza in Tokyo and Oxford Street in London.
Urban Sketchers is an online community of artists who draw the cities that they live or visit. Read what Tia has to say about the Dhoby Ghaut District here.
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the tag gave the answers away! haha. but good feature
Posted on September 6th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
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