The following sketches are a couple more places that are no longer around in Singapore. I've used my Perfect Sketchbook B5 to draw some of these places before they were gone, and other lesser-known places and scenes from Singapore's past that are still around today.
Changi Airport Terminal 2 McDonald's and Analogue Flight Info Board
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| © Favian Ee. Jan 2020 |
Changi Airport's Solaris Flight Information Board in Terminal 2 was decommissioned in 2020. I went down to sketch it on the last day of operations for the McDonald's outlet there with my friend Tony Chua. This piece of analogue equipment had been around for 20 years and will be replaced with a digital board. Gone are the sounds of those flaps as the flight information changes.
The McDonald's outlet has also been in operation for 16 years and has become something of an institution not only for travelers but also for mugging students. It's not the first Macs to close after a long tenure, and will not be the last (think KAP, East Coast, etc.), and will surely be missed. It was closing as Terminal 2 was going to undergo renovations. Alas if only we had known the pandemic would arrive in full force in a month...
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Liang Court
Daimaru. That's what I knew Liang Court for. The classic orange-tiled towers that stood along the Singapore River next to Clarke Quay was also home to Kinokuniya, Meidi-ya, and Swensens back in the day. Things changed over time and the life ebbed away after Daimaru left, but the mall below still hung on. The church I attended used their hotel ballrooms for service there at Novotel at one point too. Sadly it's no longer there, another casualty of redevelopment in land-scarce Singapore.
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