A bright and beautiful day means pictures and more pictures, yes?
So here we go.
Pictures from the bus that I took heading towards the east, beginning from.. somewhere around Upper Serangoon Road, I'd say. The other time I was on the other side. This time I was going the other way.
This side is as interesting as it is the other side, just a tad bit more. Maybe because there are all these houses and homes and condos that lie on the same side as the factories.
Make no mistake, this whole road is a literal industrial area, and the architecture and the building names and the whole street layout will bring you from the time of the 70s- where local manufacturing boomed- all the way to present-day industries.
And it makes things pretty cool.
Add to the fact that this road is a straight connector that intersects Central Singapore (the AMK) and Northeast Singapore (Punggol) to the East Coast (Guillemard), which makes it a very important road. :)
It's the middle part of this whole route that intrigues me.
Because that's the area I call the Luxury-Food-Lifestyle Belt. The name MacPherson might resonate with some, might not resonate with others, but around this area at Genting Lane is where we find some of the distributors for luxury brands in our territory. RSH is there. So is Jay Gee.
Nearer to this side is Tai Seng, where despite its unglamorous name, it got cool branding when one day LuxAsia decided that their name would be on the building they were in, by which then, Charles and Keith had already happily plonked themselves behind and by which then the food people had already jumped in, with the buildings of Sakae and Breadtalk sitting side by side.
This side is as interesting as it is the other side, just a tad bit more. Maybe because there are all these houses and homes and condos that lie on the same side as the factories.
Make no mistake, this whole road is a literal industrial area, and the architecture and the building names and the whole street layout will bring you from the time of the 70s- where local manufacturing boomed- all the way to present-day industries.
And it makes things pretty cool.
Add to the fact that this road is a straight connector that intersects Central Singapore (the AMK) and Northeast Singapore (Punggol) to the East Coast (Guillemard), which makes it a very important road. :)
It's the middle part of this whole route that intrigues me.
Because that's the area I call the Luxury-Food-Lifestyle Belt. The name MacPherson might resonate with some, might not resonate with others, but around this area at Genting Lane is where we find some of the distributors for luxury brands in our territory. RSH is there. So is Jay Gee.
Nearer to this side is Tai Seng, where despite its unglamorous name, it got cool branding when one day LuxAsia decided that their name would be on the building they were in, by which then, Charles and Keith had already happily plonked themselves behind and by which then the food people had already jumped in, with the buildings of Sakae and Breadtalk sitting side by side.
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| Near Lorong Ah Soo |
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| Bus Stop very charming lar.. |
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| Terrace Homes near the Factory |
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| Industrial/Office Use |
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| The Luxury Belt |
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| The Food Belt |
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| Present and Past |
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| An Overhead Bridge |
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| Under the PIE |