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Parliament House, Singapore
The
Parliament House of
Singapore
is a public building and cultural landmark and houses the
Parliament of Singapore
. It is located in the Civic District of the
Downtown Core
within Singapore's
central business district
(the
Central Area
). Within its vicinity is
Raffles Place
, which lies across it from the
Singapore River
, and the
Supreme Court
's building across the road. The building was designed to represent a contemporary architectural expression of
stateliness
and
authority
. The
prism
-shaped top, designed by former president
Ong Teng Cheong
, was similarly a modernist take on the traditional dome.
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