Wheelock Place
Shopping mall in Orchard, Singapore
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Wheelock Place (Chinese: 会德丰广场), (Tamil வீல்லாக் ப்லேஸ்) is a 21-floor office tower and shopping mall on Singapore's Orchard Road.
Wheelock Place at Orchard Road with its distinctive conical glass structure viewed from the bottom (Above) and the view from the entrance (Below) | |
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| Location | Orchard, Singapore |
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| Coordinates | 1°18′16.3″N 103°49′50.3″E |
| Address | 501 Orchard Road |
| Opening date | 1993 |
| Developer | Wharf Estates Singapore |
| Management | Wharf Estates Singapore |
| Owner | Wharf Estates Singapore |
| Architect | Kisho Kurokawa |
| Stores and services | 26 |
| Anchor tenants | 6 |
| Floors | 23 |
| Website | wheelockplace |
Background
The building was designed by Kisho Kurokawa and completed in 1994 as Lane Crawford Place (Chinese: 达卡佛坊).[1] It is now owned by Wharf Estates Singapore, formerly "Wheelock Properties (Singapore)",[2] a division of Hong Kong's Wheelock and Co.
It opened as 'Lane Crawford Place', housing the upmarket department store Lane Crawford over five floors.[3] It featured the first curved escalators in Singapore, echoing Lane Crawford's installation of the first public curved escalators in the world in 1993 at their [Times Square (Hong Kong)] location, developed by Mitsubishi Electric. The store shut in 1996 and the building was renamed Wheelock Place following Lane Crawford's exit.
The mall has an underpass to Shaw House and ION Orchard.[4] It was the site of Borders' flagship Singapore store until its closure in 2011.[5] Following which, Marks & Spencer became Wheelock Place's main tenant.[6]
A new book shop, Zall Bookstore, opened in 2021.[7]
The mall houses multiple homegrown retail, food, and lifestyle brands. Among these are Browhaus, Cedele, and Privè.
