A: Bank of China Building, the tallest landmark in Raffles Place in the 1960's and 1970's.
B: Former General Post Office, now The Fullerton Hotel.

A 1967 aerial view of the financial district, by the Singapore River. The tallest building then was the Bank of China Building at Battery Road, behind the former General Post Office. The Bank of China Building was to stand for the next decade as the tallest landmark in Raffles Place.

A: DBS Building
B: International Plaza
C: United Overseas Bank
D: OCBC Centre

1974. The first of the two United Overseas Bank's buildings was up by then. OCBC Centre and International Plaza were both under construction - both were completed in 1976. They were two of the tallest buildings in the financial district then.

A: DBS Building
B: International Plaza
C: OCBC Centre

You can see some of our earlier skyscrapers burgeoning up from the core financial district. The 52-storey OCBC Centre by I.M. Pei was the tallest building in Singapore and even Southeast Asia when completed in 1976. This was followed by the 50-storey International Plaza and the 50-storey DBS Building.