Golden Mile Complex is a modernist / brutalist style mixed use development, near Nicoll Highway, Singapore. Built in 1973, the building was a visionary mixed use development for its time, housing offices, shopping, entertainment services in its lower level podium and sea facing apartments on its upper stepped terrace structure.

At the higher level atrium the building’s articulated stepping design allows natural lighting and ventilation through to the residential and office corridors, with a large void deck offering space for residents to play sports on the ninth floor.

The design architects, Gan Eng Oon, William Lim and Tay Kheng Soon of the local architecture firm Design Partnership (now DP Architects) drew influence from Linear City designs, envisioning Golden Mile as a module in a vast linear megastructure spine that could run parallel to Beach Road.

Together with Samantha Chia as part of UNIT. we released a book: UNIT. Volume 2: Golden Mile Complex which documents the stories behind the iconic building in the final years leading up to its redevelopment, through photography, architectural conversations, and interviews with its shopkeepers, tenants, and residents.

A swimming pool, sited on top of the residents’ car park lies empty and abandoned due to lack of funding.

In 2022 Golden Mile Complex was sold for $700 million to a consortium comprising Perennial Holdings Private Limited, Sino Land and Far East Organization. As the building is gazetted for conservation by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), the building is to be restored, retaining the main building’s key features and its signature terraced profile.