The Buildings
Both the City Hall and former Supreme Court buildings are national monuments and have played a significant role in Singapore's history. The buildings face onto an open field known as the Padang, which is a Malay word meaning "flat field".
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“If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline except that of narrow meansfrom the fruity austerities of learning, through the iron rations of English gentlemanhood, down to the modest disadvantages of occupying cold stone buildings without central heating and having to cross two or three quadrangles to take a bath.”
—Margaret Halsey (b. 1910)