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Completed in 1973, the Golden Mile Complex is one of the first “strata-titled” properties de­veloped under the 1967 Gov­ernment Land Sales Programme, the pioneering 99-year land lease system that radically transformed Singapore one high-rise after another.1 In the vision of Design Partnership (today known as DP Architects) the complex was intended to be part of a futuristic linear city of modern apartments, shops, and hotels, rising on a stretch of reclaimed land along Beach Road, which was formerly occupied by beach clubs and small maritime businesses.

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