learning & discovering

st. andrew's cathedral

2007-04-04T07:41:00.000-07:00

St. Andrew's Cathedral

1823
present site chosen for a church by sir stamford raffles
1834
foundation stone of first anglican church in singapore laid on present site
1837
first divine service conducted by the first chaplain , revd edmund white
1838
st. andrews was consecrated , but twice struck by lighting , and was declared un safe and closed in 1852
1856
foundation stone of present building laid by bishop of calcutta
1862
present building consecrated
1870
st. andrew's church become the cathedral of the diocese of labuan and sarawak
1909
C.J Ferguson-davie became the first bishop of singapore
1942
cathedral used as an emergancy hospital before the fall of singapore
1952
completion of north transept extension
1973
cathedral gazetted as a national monument
1983
completion of south transept extension
1989
construction of Baptisty
2005
completion of the quiet places extention: the cathedral new sanctuary and chapel for all people

City Hall

2007-04-04T07:13:00.000-07:00

City Hall
* A historical building
* A lot of historical events take place here
* Surrender of the Japanese ceremony was held here in 1945
* Following classical style
* Last of the few classical building built in Singapore
* back, plain, simple
* Front – imposing , nice
* Built between 1926-1929
* Design by Rudolfo Nolli
* Got a job in Singapore to make sculptures in year 1921
* All the sculptures are made from faux stones [ artificial stones ]
* Method – pre-casting
* Declaration of self-government by Mr. Lee Kuan Yew was held here in 1959
* It was renamed City Hall when Singapore was declared a City in 1951 by Britain's King George VI

Supreme Court

2007-04-04T05:55:00.000-07:00

Supreme Court
* The supreme court occupies the site of the former hotel de L'Europe.
The hotel opened in two bungalows in 1857. Rebuilt in the Edwardian Baroque Style in 1907 , it was a keen rival to Raffles Hotel.
* It was designed by Frank Dorrington Ward , chief architect of the public works department and was officially opened by governor Sir Shenton Thomas on 3 aug 1939
* Built in 1939
* Built according to the classical style from Roman
* Falls under the classical architectural styles: ionic, Corinthian, Doric
* Justicia [ Roman Goddess of justice ]
* She is blindfolded so as to ensure that she is fair to everyone and
unbiased

* Frieze - a horizontal band, usually close to the top of a wall or forming the middle portion of an entablature, usually decorated with sculpture, etc.

* Pediment – in classical architecture, it is a triangular part of a wall, usually between sloping roofs, supported by columns, leading to the entrance of a building.

* Tympanum – the triangular wall surface of the pediment

* Ionic – most easily distinguished by the volutes [spirals or scrolls], resembling a ram’s horns, at the top of the column is also called a capital.

* Corinthian – most easily recognized by ornate acanthus leaf decorations on its capitals.

* Doric – it is characteristically plain and undecorated .

* there is a newly built supreme court now...

Sir Stamford Raffles statue

2007-04-04T05:54:00.001-07:00

Sir Stamford Raffles statue [Victoria Memorial Hall]

· Made from : Pertinal / Bronze
· Man from the past wear short pants
· Man who wear long pants are laborers [ at a lower rank ]
· The way Sir Stamford Raffles’s eyes look means that Singapore has a future … [ looking far … ]
· Motto under the statue is the same as the motto as Raffles Institution
· Gryphon [ 2 headed]
· Motto : Auspicium Melioris Aevi [ hoping for a better age]
· The statue is erected on the esplanade in the year 1997. It was moved to its present site in the year 1919.
· Marky Kotugawa [ the new museum curator ] hidden the statue inside the museum during the war so the statue is still the original one

dalhousie obelisk

2007-04-04T05:43:00.000-07:00

Dalhousie Obelisk

* Built to commemorate the visit of the Governor General , Lord Dalhousie , and his wife in 1850 , Singapore by then was a thriving past under the British East India Company.
* It is an abstract style
* Made of concrete
* first public monument in Singapore
* tall, 4 sided , tapering monument with a pyramid on top.
* oldest sculpture , 156 yrs old

Method

* Carving

dalhousie obelisk

2007-03-25T07:12:00.000-07:00

dalhousie obelisk

2007-03-25T07:10:00.001-07:00

slideshow on the snapshots we took

learning journey...

2007-03-25T03:47:00.000-07:00

this blog is created for our learning journey and will include all the details of the learning journey and also what we have all learned from the learning journey...
our group consists of :
Beverly Ng [ leader ]
Belinda , Jia Jia
Png Wan Yu
Koh Wei Shan