A rainbow appears over the “Rainbow Flats”, as Rochor Centre is sometimes referred to, as if to say goodbye on the morning of 14 September 2016. Built to house residents and business displaced by urban redevelopment in the late 1970s, the Housing and Development Board built podium residential cum commercial development is due to make way very soon for the construction of the North-South Expressway. For more on the complex and its last days, do visit an earlier post: Parting Glances: Rochor Centre in its last days.
Filed under: Architecture, Changing Landscapes, Rochor Area, Singapore
