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The Majestic, Singapore

Index The Majestic, Singapore

The Majestic is a historic building on Eu Tong Sen Street in Chinatown, Singapore. [1]

67 relations: Architectural conservation, Architectural style, Architecture, Blockbuster (entertainment), Cantonese opera, Cathay Organisation, Cave, Ceiling, Chinatown, Singapore, Chinese architecture, Cinema of China, Commercial district, Dome, Dragon, Eu Tong Sen, Eu Tong Sen Street, Facade, Fan (person), Film, Ge Lan, Hall, Hong Kong, Imperial Japanese Army, Japan, Japanese occupation of Singapore, Landmark, Lease, Leasehold estate, Letter (alphabet), Lin Dai, Logo, Loke Wan Tho, Magnate, Mining, Modern architecture, Mosaic, Movie star, Movie theater, National Library Board, Natural rubber, Opera, Opera house, Ownership, Partnership, People's Park Complex, Philanthropy, Projection screen, Propaganda, Raffles Hotel, Real estate, ..., Renovation, Renting, Scene (filmmaking), Seating capacity, Shaw Organisation, Shopping mall, Singapore, Singapore dollar, Street, Subsidiary, Swan & Maclaren, Theatre, Tile, Tin, Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall, World War II, Yue Hwa Building. Expand index (17 more) »

Architectural conservation

Architectural conservation describes the process through which the material, historical, and design integrity of any built heritage are prolonged through carefully planned interventions.

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Architectural style

An architectural style is characterized by the features that make a building or other structure notable or historically identifiable.

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Architecture

Architecture is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing buildings or any other structures.

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Blockbuster (entertainment)

A blockbuster is a work of entertainment – especially a feature film, but also other media – that is highly popular and financially successful.

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Cantonese opera

The Cantonese opera is one of the major categories in Chinese opera, originating in southern China's Guangdong Province.

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Cathay Organisation

Cathay Organisation Holdings Limited is one of Singapore's leisure and entertainment groups.

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Cave

A cave is a hollow place in the ground, specifically a natural space large enough for a human to enter.

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Ceiling

A ceiling is an overhead interior surface that covers the upper limits of a room.

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Chinatown, Singapore

Chinatown (Kreta Ayer, சைனா டவுன்) is a subzone and ethnic enclave located within the Outram district in the Central Area of Singapore.

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Chinese architecture

Chinese architecture is a style of architecture that has taken shape in East Asia over many centuries.

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Cinema of China

The cinema of China is one of three distinct historical threads of Chinese-language cinema together with the cinema of Hong Kong and the cinema of Taiwan.

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Commercial district

A commercial district or commercial zone is any part of a city or town in which the primary land use is commercial activities (shops, offices, theaters, restaurants and so on), as opposed to a residential neighbourhood, an industrial zone, or other types of neighbourhoods.

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Dome

Interior view upward to the Byzantine domes and semi-domes of Hagia Sophia. See Commons file for annotations. A dome (from Latin: domus) is an architectural element that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere.

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Dragon

A dragon is a large, serpent-like legendary creature that appears in the folklore of many cultures around the world.

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Eu Tong Sen

Eu Tong Sen (23 July 1877 – 11 May 1941) was a leading businessman in Malaya, Singapore and Hong Kong during the late 19th and early 20th century.

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Eu Tong Sen Street

Eu Tong Sen Street is a one-way road located in the central part of Singapore in the planning areas of Outram, Singapore River and Bukit Merah.

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Facade

A facade (also façade) is generally one exterior side of a building, usually, but not always, the front.

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Fan (person)

A fan, or fanatic, sometimes also termed aficionado or supporter, is a person who is enthusiastically devoted to something or somebody, such as a singer or band, a sports team, a genre, a politician, a book, a movie or an entertainer.

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Film

A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving pícture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.

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Ge Lan

Grace Chang (born 1934), commonly known as Ge Lan (葛蘭), is a Hong Kong-Chinese actress and singer.

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Hall

In architecture, a hall is a relatively large space enclosed by a roof and walls.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory of China on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia.

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Imperial Japanese Army

The Imperial Japanese Army (IJA; Dai-Nippon Teikoku Rikugun; "Army of the Greater Japanese Empire") was the official ground-based armed force of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Japanese occupation of Singapore

The Japanese occupation of Singapore in World War II took place from 1942 to 1945, following the fall of the British colony on 15 February 1942.

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Landmark

A landmark is a recognizable natural or artificial feature used for navigation, a feature that stands out from its near environment and is often visible from long distances.

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Lease

A lease is a contractual arrangement calling for the lessee (user) to pay the lessor (owner) for use of an asset.

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Leasehold estate

A leasehold estate is an ownership of a temporary right to hold land or property in which a lessee or a tenant holds rights of real property by some form of title from a lessor or landlord.

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Letter (alphabet)

A letter is a grapheme (written character) in an alphabetic system of writing.

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Lin Dai

Linda Lin Dai (26 December 1934 – 17 July 1964), born Cheng Yueru (程月如), was a Chinese actress of Hong Kong films made in Mandarin during the 1950s–60s.

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Logo

A logo (abbreviation of logotype, from λόγος logos "word" and τύπος typos "imprint") is a graphic mark, emblem, or symbol used to aid and promote public identification and recognition.

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Loke Wan Tho

Loke Wan Tho (14 June 1915 – 20 June 1964), born in Kuala Lumpur, was a Singaporean business magnate, ornithologist, and photographer.

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Magnate

Magnate, from the Late Latin magnas, a great man, itself from Latin magnus, 'great', designates a noble or other man in a high social position, by birth, wealth or other qualities.

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Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposit.

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Modern architecture

Modern architecture or modernist architecture is a term applied to a group of styles of architecture which emerged in the first half of the 20th century and became dominant after World War II.

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Mosaic

A mosaic is a piece of art or image made from the assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials.

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Movie star

A movie star (also known as a film star and cinema star) is an actor who is famous for their starring, or leading, roles in motion pictures.

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Movie theater

A movie theater/theatre (American English), cinema (British English) or cinema hall (Indian English) is a building that contains an auditorium for viewing films (also called movies) for entertainment.

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National Library Board

The National Library Board (Abbreviation: NLB;; Malay: Lembaga Perpustakaan Negara; தேசிய நூலக வாரியம்) is a statutory board of the Ministry of Communications and Information, Singapore.

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Natural rubber

Natural rubber, also called India rubber or caoutchouc, as initially produced, consists of polymers of the organic compound isoprene, with minor impurities of other organic compounds, plus water.

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Opera

Opera (English plural: operas; Italian plural: opere) is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers.

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Opera house

An opera house is a theatre building used for opera performances that consists of a stage, an orchestra pit, audience seating, and backstage facilities for costumes and set building.

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Ownership

Ownership is the state or fact of exclusive rights and control over property, which may be an object, land/real estate or intellectual property.

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Partnership

A partnership is an arrangement where parties, known as partners, agree to cooperate to advance their mutual interests.

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People's Park Complex

People's Park Complex is a high-rise commercial and residential building on Eu Tong Sen Street in Outram, within People's Park in Singapore.

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Philanthropy

Philanthropy means the love of humanity.

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Projection screen

A projection screen is an installation consisting of a surface and a support structure used for displaying a projected image for the view of an audience.

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Propaganda

Propaganda is information that is not objective and is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is presented.

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Raffles Hotel

Raffles Hotel is a colonial-style luxury hotel in Singapore.

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Real estate

Real estate is "property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more generally) buildings or housing in general.

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Renovation

Renovation (also called remodeling) is the process of improving a broken, damaged, or outdated structure.

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Renting

Renting, also known as hiring or letting, is an agreement where a payment is made for the temporary use of a good, service or property owned by another.

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Scene (filmmaking)

In filmmaking and video production, a scene is generally thought of as the action in a single location and continuous time.

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Seating capacity

Seating capacity is the number of people who can be seated in a specific space, in terms of both the physical space available, and limitations set by law.

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Shaw Organisation

Shaw Organisation is a film distribution company and cinema chain founded by brothers Runme Shaw and Run Run Shaw who went to Singapore in the 1920s to expand their family business founded by Runje Shaw.

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Shopping mall

A shopping mall is a modern, chiefly North American, term for a form of shopping precinct or shopping center, in which one or more buildings form a complex of shops representing merchandisers with interconnecting walkways that enable customers to walk from unit to unit.

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Singapore

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign city-state and island country in Southeast Asia.

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Singapore dollar

The Singapore dollar (sign: S$; code: SGD) is the official currency of Singapore.

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Street

A street is a public thoroughfare (usually paved) in a built environment.

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Subsidiary

A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company"daughter company.

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Swan & Maclaren

Swan and Maclaren Architects is the oldest architectural firm in Singapore.

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Theatre

Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers, typically actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.

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Tile

A tile is a manufactured piece of hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, metal, or even glass, generally used for covering roofs, floors, walls, showers, or other objects such as tabletops.

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Tin

Tin is a chemical element with the symbol Sn (from stannum) and atomic number 50.

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Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall

The Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall is a performing arts center in the Central Area of Singapore, situated along empress place.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Yue Hwa Building

Yue Hwa Building is a historic building located at the junction of Eu Tong Sen Street and Upper Cross Street in Chinatown, Singapore.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Majestic,_Singapore

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