BRAS BASAH COMPLEX

The commercial feature of the Bras Basah Complex is so conspicuous that often it is easy to forget that residences live above them. Bras Basah Complex is one of the city's last affordable housing projects for the Housing and Development Board. Today, a unit at the project can fetch more than $700,000 for selling the HDB flat... The Bras Basah Complex, built in 1980 under the urban renewal programme, has for the past three decades been a comfortable environment to many Singaporeans. Over the decades, the mixed development complex has become the well-known City of Books in Singapore, an unofficial but symbolic name just like the Army Market as well as the popular Sungei Thieves Market... As the hub of art and books, the Bras Basah Complex has its origins. The complex was built in the 1980s and was a faithful host of small-scale local music recitals, book fairs and art exhibitions that were extremely popular with the locals and confirmed its position as the district's cultural hub.