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Jurong Brickworks. Jurong Brickworks ( Chinese: 裕廊砖厂; pinyin: Yù láng zhuān chǎng) was a private brick manufacturing plant located in Singapore's Jurong area. Originally known as Sin Choon Kee Brickworks ( 新春记; Xīn chūn jì ), it was renamed Jurong Brickworks in the 1930s after being acquired by Chan Wah Chip and Koh Eng Poh.
The Brick Ltd. The Brick Ltd. is a Canadian retailer of furniture, mattresses, appliances and home electronics. The company was founded as The Brick Warehouse LP by brothers, John, Fred, and Bill Comrie. The first warehouse opened on September 1, 1971 in Edmonton, Alberta. Its first expansion was to Fort McMurray, Alberta in the 1970s and later ...
MiniScribe Corporation was a manufacturer of disk storage products, founded in Longmont, Colorado in 1980. MiniScribe designed and sold stepper motor -based hard disk drives with a large amount of onboard logic for the time. They eventually moved into higher-profile voice coil motor designs, and won major contracts with IBM.
A shophouse is a building type serving both as a residence and a commercial business. [1] It is defined in dictionary as a building type found in Southeast Asia that is "a shop opening on to the pavement and also used as the owner's residence", [2] and became a commonly used term since the 1950s. [3]
Shophouses in Singapore Shophouses in Singapore. The old style shophouses are shops with one or more stories of living accommodation above it. These shophouses typically have a so-called five foot way which is a covered walkway located in front of the shop doors, with the upper floors shielding the pedestrians from the elements.
BooksActually was established by Kenny Leck and Karen Wai in 2005 on the second floor of a shophouse along Telok Ayer Street with capital pooled from savings and family. The bookstore subsequently moved to Ann Siang Hill in 2007, and opened a second outlet at Club Street in 2008. Due to an increase in rent, they closed up Ann Siang Hill and ...
Peranakan Place today fronting the intersection of Emerald Hill Road and Orchard Road. Peranakan Place (also known as Peranakan Place Complex), formerly known as Peranakan Corner, is a row of six two-storey shophouses facing Orchard Road, built around 1902 at the intersection of Emerald Hill Road and Orchard Road in the planning area of Newton in Singapore.
15,060. Brickworks (also known as Bukit Batok West Extension) is a subzone of Bukit Batok, Singapore. [2] It is bounded by Bukit Batok West Avenue 3/2/5 and Bukit Batok Road and is beside the upcoming New Town, Tengah. It is the latest development area in Bukit Batok.