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Wallich Residence - Luxurious Sky-High Living
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Pre-function room at level 52, Wallich Residence. Image GuocoLand.
For the ignoramus, Wallich Residence was named after Mr Nathaniel Wallich, whose passion for botany led to the establishment of Singapore's premier Botanical and Experimental Garden at Fort Canning. Did you know where Wallich Residence sits today was a hill overlooking a bay? However, it no longer exists today. The hill was flattened for Singapore's first major reclamation project starting around the 1880s - its soil taken to fill Telok Ayer Basin. Today, Singapore's Central Business District is bustling on the soil taken...
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