14 Stunning Architecture Landmarks in Singapore
14 landmarks with verified facts and stories
Buddha Tooth Relic Temple
288 South Bridge Road, Singapore 058840
The Buddha Tooth Relic Temple is a five-storey Tang Dynasty-style Buddhist temple in the heart of Chinatown that was built in 2007 but looks and feels centuries old — a testament to the meticulous scholarship and craftsmanship that went into recreating the architectural vocabulary of 7th-century Chinese Buddhism in a 21st-century building.
Cloud Forest
18 Marina Gardens Drive, Singapore 018953
The Cloud Forest is the more dramatic of Gardens by the Bay's two conservatories — a 35-metre indoor waterfall inside a cooled glass dome that recreates the conditions of tropical mountain forests found at elevations between 1,000 and 3,000 metres.
Henderson Waves & Southern Ridges
221 Henderson Rd, Bukit Merah, Singapore, 159557, Singapore
Henderson Waves is Singapore's highest pedestrian bridge — a 274-metre undulating steel structure that connects Mount Faber Park to Telok Blangah Hill Park at 36 metres above Henderson Road, and walking across it feels like riding a frozen wave through the forest canopy.
Jewel Changi Airport
78 Airport Boulevard, Singapore 819666
Jewel Changi Airport is either the world's best airport terminal or the world's strangest shopping mall — a glass-domed complex connecting Changi Airport's three terminals that houses the world's tallest indoor waterfall, a five-storey indoor forest, and 280 shops and restaurants in a space designed by Moshe Safdie (who also designed Marina Bay Sands) to make layovers feel like a destination.
Lau Pa Sat
18 Raffles Quay, Singapore 048582
Lau Pa Sat is a Victorian cast-iron market hall in the Financial District that has been feeding Singapore since 1894 — an octagonal structure shipped in pieces from a foundry in Glasgow, assembled on the waterfront, and now sitting slightly incongruously among the glass towers of the CBD.
Marina Bay Sands
10 Bayfront Ave, Downtown Core, Singapore, 018956, Singapore
Marina Bay Sands is the building that made Singapore's skyline recognisable from space — three 55-storey towers supporting a cantilevered SkyPark that extends further than the Eiffel Tower is tall, topped by the world's most photographed infinity pool.
National Gallery Singapore
1 St Andrew's Road, Singapore 178957
The National Gallery Singapore is Southeast Asia's largest visual arts museum — housed in two of the most significant colonial buildings on the island (the former Supreme Court and City Hall), connected by a dramatic glass-and-steel canopy that bridges the gap between heritage architecture and contemporary museum design.
National Museum of Singapore
93 Stamford Road, Singapore 178897
The National Museum of Singapore is the country's oldest museum — established in 1849, housed in a neoclassical building completed in 1887, and expanded with a modern glass-and-steel wing that wraps around the original structure like a contemporary commentary on colonial architecture.
Raffles Hotel
1 Beach Road, Singapore 189673
Raffles Hotel is the grand dame of Southeast Asian hospitality — a colonial white wedding cake of a building that has been hosting writers, royalty, and adventurers since 1887.
Sri Mariamman Temple
244 South Bridge Road, Singapore 058793
Sri Mariamman Temple is the oldest Hindu temple in Singapore — founded in 1827 by Naraina Pillai, who arrived with Raffles as a government clerk and became one of the most successful Indian merchants in the colony.
Supertree Grove
18 Marina Gardens Dr, Marina South, Singapore, 018953, Singapore
The Supertree Grove is the most recognisable landscape in modern Singapore — 18 steel-and-concrete structures rising between 25 and 50 metres, covered in living vertical gardens of over 162,900 plants comprising more than 200 species of orchids, ferns, bromeliads, and tropical flowering plants.
The Pinnacle@Duxton
1G Cantonment Rd, Outram, Singapore, 085701, Singapore
The Pinnacle@Duxton is the world's tallest public housing complex — seven 50-storey towers connected by sky gardens on the 26th and 50th floors — and visiting its rooftop skybridge gives you both the best panoramic view in Singapore and an education in the country's most remarkable achievement: public housing that 80% of the population actually wants to live in.
Tiong Bahru
Tiong Bahru Rd, Bukit Merah, Singapore, Singapore
Tiong Bahru is Singapore's oldest public housing estate and its most characterful neighbourhood — a grid of Art Deco apartment blocks from the 1930s that has evolved from a working-class district to the city's café culture epicentre without losing the neighbourhood charm that makes it worth visiting.
Victoria Theatre & Concert Hall
9 Empress Place, Singapore 179556
Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall is the oldest performing arts venue in Singapore — a twin structure on Empress Place that has been hosting concerts, theatre, and civic events since 1862.
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