ISBN: 9789810564315 (1 résultats)

Softcover. Etat : Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Softcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> The railway station at Tanjong Pagar was built in 1932 as the southernmost terminus for the Federated Malay States Railway Originally known as the Keppel Road Terminus, the station was designed in the Modern Style by D. S. Petrovich, a Serbian architect of British training then in the employ of the firm of Swan & Maclaren in Singapore. The building, made from reinforced concrete, is thought to have been influenced by Eliel Saarinen's Helsinki Railway Station, which was completed in 1914. An entry in the Online Architecture Index for Singapore reads: "One of the objectives of the British Administration in that time [1930s] was to erect grandiose and impressive structures to impress the natives!" Stesen keretapi yang terletak di Tanjong Pagar telah dibina pada tahun 1932 sebagai perhentian terakhir Keretapi Tanah Melayu di kawasan selatan negara. Stesen tersebut, yang pada mulanya dikenali dengan nama Keppel Road Terminus, telah direka dengan gaya reka Moden oleh D. S. Petrovich, seorang arkitek Serbia yang dilatih d.…