With Singapore’s ever changing landscape, you see new buildings sprout up all the time. While many of the condos are increasingly generic looking, there are still some iconic gems (both from Singapore’s history and current day) that is worth knowing about. From old brutalist architecture, to green-filled structures and sleek modern looking buildings, here are some of Singapore’s most iconic residential developments. Note: this isn’t an all-inclusive list!

1. People’s Park Complex (1973)

People’s Park Complex was the first mixed-use development in the whole of South East Asia, and it may surprise you to learn the developer is none other than HDB. This was an experimental “commercial housing project”, by the Urban Renewal Board that was part of HDB at the time. People’s Park Complex was also the first to incorporate a mall with an atrium; at the time, this was a mainly theoretical idea from Japanese architecture....