The Garage is a historic building in the Singapore Botanic Gardens. Built in the 1920s, it currently houses the Bees Knee's cafe and the Au Balcon restaurant.
The Garage is a historic building in the Singapore Botanic Gardens. Built in the 1920s, it currently houses the Bees Knee's cafe and the Au Balcon restaurant.
The two-storey building was designed in the Art Deco style. It features a hip roof and a rendered finish, with seven individual garage spaces. The entrances to the garages on the ground floor feature half-round arches while staircases on either side of the building lead up to the first floor, which is set behind the front on the ground floor and made up of a single open space, featuring a truss roof of timber. [1]
Completed sometime between 1924 and 1928, the building initially stood on the University of Malaya's Bukit Timah Campus in Singapore. It served as a garage for the institution's professors. [1] It also functioned as the National Parks Board's horticulture department in the 1990s. [2] It was gazetted for conservation by the Urban Redevelopment Authority in June 2014. [3]
In February 2017, lifestyle F&B company 1-Group opened Bees Knee's, a 60-seater cafe bistro operating on the building's ground floor, and Botanico, modern European-style restaurant which occupies the first floor of the building. [4] Botanico was later replaced by Au Balcon, which is also owned by 1-Group. [5]
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