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MINT toy museum
after bbc, walk a bit further
26 Seah Street

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We relate the aestethic of the place with Britain in the modern era (1900s). With the vintage posters and toys which began to be produced along with animations in 1900s.

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MINT museum is a museum for vintage toys (1840 - 1970). They divide it into 4 levels +basement +rooftop: Outerspace, Childhood Favorite, Characters, and Collectibles. They also have vintage enamels and posters.

One of the toys that originates from Britain is Mobo Horse. It is one of the exhibit as listed in the official website.

src: http://emint.com/about-us/
picture from google image as we were unable to go to the insides.

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We saw this arrays of posters in the lobby. This is as far as we can go. They are certainly not from this era, or was intentionally made to mimic past era. The posters are similar to those from the west (england/america)

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The Substation
beside the Peranakan Museum

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Chijmes ( Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus Middle Education School)

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Cher, we cannot go in :(

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Must pay 30 dollars :"(

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Sad

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We are looking in the similarities on the architecture and culture.

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The substation arrange exhibition for experimental arts and hold dance/teater classes. The building has some influence from Britain, but it is not as dominant as the other building in the list.

The dances mostly originated from America, India, Brazil.

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We saw some histories on Chijmes, and we saw a lot of British Culture, especially in term of religion (Catholics) and also aestethics in the building desgins. Also a bit around the local culture about gender inequality, how the locals disown their baby girls because they are girl

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The building style is Anglo French Gothic and Neoclassical designed by George Coleman. It was once shelter for baby girls abandoned by the family due to demand for boys. Girls born in year of tiger is also believed to bring bad luck and thus abandoned.

They pioneered the education for girls in Penang and Singapore, with nuns.

Now Chijmes is used for restaurants, shops and bar. And the halls are often used for events and weddings, no more schoolings happen. However during their active years they have made some schools, particularly those strarting with CHIJ (eg: CHIJ st. Nicholas)

src: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/chijmes and google images.

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Bugis Junction

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We are seeing the Britain aestethics in the building of Bugis Junction. And also the colours of the building

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Bugis Junction is Capitaland Mall. It is one of the biggest mall in this area. It was once a place for merchant form Bugis to trade. It soon became Bugis Street. Bugis Street was quite a "not good" business (those sex stuff), they also have booze, transveites and weird stuffs. But that Bugis Street is actually different with our current Bugis Street. That Bugis street was once demolished to make way for the construction of the Bugis MRT, which later on, Bugis Junction was built on top of the station. It became a big scale mall with no more "no good" business (i think).

The architecture has a lot of British influence. Not as much as the national museum of Singapore.

src: http://www.ghettosingapore.com/the-original-bugis-street/

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Soo... the sailors, they do this thing called flaming arsehole dance. They put rolled up paper and burn them. They they put it between the arse. then they dande and move until they can't take it anymore.

here is the video, but it's quite graphic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en-GB&gl=SG&v=XsVwvWG5L9A
(only ass tho, so if you are fine with ass then, should be ok.)

src: https://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en-GB&gl=SG&v=XsVwvWG5L9A

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We relate the exterior of Bugis Junction to British building. Have a lot of pillars and the colors are neutral, like most buildings in britain.

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Sri Krishnan Temple
waterloo street

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At first we thought it was church. Turns out the place is quite commercial.

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Bugis+

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Artichoke Cafe.
Behind NAFA.

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unfortunately there was not any event going on there by the time we visited the place. But we did see some dance, what appeared to be contemporary dance.

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Singapore Art Museum

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We are seeing Britain aestethics in the exterior of SAM and the little details in props designs (such as hanging lamps and flooring tiles).

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Singapore art museum focuses on contemporary art, both local and international. It started in 20 January 1996. They are supported by MCCY.

The building of SAM is of a restored 19th century mission school St. Joseph Institute. They keep the details of the building as close as possible to the original state. That is why we can find a lot of British influence in the way it is built.

src: http://www.visitsingapore.com/see-do-singapore/arts/museums-galleries/singapore-art-museum/
http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/history/events/1857d701-7ac2-4c3b-b67e-a47ba0e662c6

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SAM was under renovation when we visited. But we could see the exterior already have influence from british architecture aestethics. with the intricate ornament and neutral colours.

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National Museum of Singapore

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We see a lot of influence from Britain. From the exhibition, the food in the restaurant and the architecture.

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It has been around since 1887. They have from art installations to festivals to film screening. Also of course restaurant and souvenir shop.

The museum is one of the biggest in Singapore and one of the first. Right now, the current exhibition is "Witness to War", about the 1942 war. It's free for Singaporean and Permanent Resident.

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The exterior and interior of the museum feels really british, aestethically. still with the neutral white overalls and intricate ornaments simillar to those of Singapore National Museum and Chjimes.

One of my favorite beside Chijmes, very detailed and intricate design. Well-kept and preserved.

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Kwan im Tong Temple

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The interior and exterior of the cafe really resemble the aestethics of modern cafes in Britain. Although the food is categorized as middle east food

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Chijmes is said to be the Singapore version of London Covent Garden.

It's like center of town with a lot of shops.

src: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/chijmes

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Symbol in tend and color schemes the temple has

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The symbol on the temple's tend appears to be a Thailand most famous symbol, elephant, which is quite interesting. Having a warm color schemes such as orange, red, yellow etc makes this temple even looks more being influenced heavily by Thailand.

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For this architecture, I would say, instead of the very old victorian style, it is more modern. Probably around 1930-40s. Might be categorized to modernism, although certainly not postmodernism. Although they keep the color maroon (shade of red). The windows styles are also simillar to the other architecture.

A picture of 1930/40s cafe in London for comparison

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The picture of saints, glass painting (stained glass)

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The picture of saints, glass painting (stained glass)

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We found out that the glasses was decorated with pictures of the 12 saints (and some others), although from our side we can see only some.

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We saw exhibition about war. Because Singapore used to be colonized by Britain, we assume there will be a lot of British influence inside the exhibition. However we cannot go in because we are not Singaporean/PR.

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The props, from staircase to lamps are handcrafted.

src: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/chijmes

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We relate to the dishes as in culture. We found Thailand cuisine and British cuisine (of course other countries as well.