The Arts House at the Old Parliament
Neo-Palladian mansion built in 1827, once Parliament House, now a lively arts centre.
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This guide to The Arts House at the Old Parliament in Singapore follows two stories of things that ended up somewhere they were never meant to be. A teenage Siamese king's 1871 visit explains the bronze elephant now standing outside, while an Irish architect's 1826 mansion for a Scottish merchant who never spent a night in it became, by turns, colonial courts, offices, and eventually Singapore's first Parliament. Listen for how a private commission kept being repurposed by history.
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