CantonmentRoad

Key Roads

168 Robinson Road

Robinson Road is a major trunk road in Singapore's Central Area that stretches from Maxwell Road to Finlayson Green and is named afterward Sir William Cleaver Francis Robinson, the Governor of the Straits Settlements in 1877–1879.

Robinson Road was built on reclaimed land after the 1879 Telok Ayer reclamation project, but its distance from the sea has increased as more land was reclaimed subsequently.

This allowed for the road to be widened and converted into a one-way street to accommodate the rise in traffic flow pending massive urban development. Today, it is flanked on both sides by major wildlife to several buildings, including Robinson Centre and Robinson Point.

Key Buildings

Guoco Tower

Tanjong Pagar Centre, alternatively known as Guoco Tower, is currently the tallest of the skyscrapers in Singapore. Guoco Tower resides at the intersection of several prominent neighbourhoods in Singapore.

Sited amid the Central Business District, the historic Chinatown, and rapidly developing neighborhoods to the south and east, the tower marks a gateway to the waterfront city.

Guoco Tower blends Singapore’s business district with its cultural heritage, and the massing of the buildings respond directly to this aspiration. The tower rises adjacently to the business district, responding to the neighborhood’s scale, while the hotel steps down toward the scale of the historic Chinatown—bridging the gap between old and new.