Raffles City : interior [2]



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01 Mar 1987

Photographed By Kouo, Shang-Wei, 1924-1988

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This is a coloured slide showing the lighted interior of the ground floor of Raffles City Shopping Centre. Featured are two escalators and a white arc decorated with little triangles of various colours. Title devised by Library staff.


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Commercial buildings--Singapore--Photographs

Shopping centers--Singapore--Photographs

Interior architecture--Singapore--Photographs

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Shopping centres

Interior architecture

Commercial buildings

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All rights reserved, Family of Kouo Shang-Wei and National Library Board Singapore 2007

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