The
City Hall (
Chinese: 政府大厦; ; ) in
Singapore is a
national monument gazetted on 14 February 1992. It can be found in front of historical
Padang and adjacent to the
Supreme Court of Singapore, it was designed and built by the architects of the municipal government, A. Gordans and F. D. Meadows from 1926 to 1929. A flight of stairs takes visitors from the Corinthian colonnade to the main building. The building was constructed to replace several houses designed by
architect G.D. Coleman. It was first known as
Municipal Building until 1951 when Singapore was granted
city status by
King George VI.