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THE CITY HALL IN SINGAPORE
The City Hall in Singapore is a national monument gazetted on 14 February 1992. Located in front of the historical Padang and next door to the Supreme Court of Singapore, it was designed and built by the architects of the municipal government, A. Gordans and F. D. Meadows in 1926 to 1929. A flight of stairs takes visitors from the Corinthian colonnade to the main building.City Hall is a historically and politically important venue. It was here that the Japanese surrendered to Lord Mountbatten in 1945, that Lee Kuan Yew declared home rule in Singapore in 1959 and Singapore's independence from the Federation of Malaysia in 1965.
Singapore has a unitary system of government. It has not had a mayor or a city council since the end of British rule. The ruling People's Action Party abolished the City Council and the Rural Board in 1959, and the rôle of the mayor disappeared. In place are the five Community Development Councils (namely Central Singapore, Northeast, Northwest, Southeast and Southwest), established in 1997. The CDCs are not elected bodies, rather each of them consists of 12 to 80 members appointed by the People's Association Chairman or Deputy Chairman. Each of the five CDCs is headed by a mayor.
In 1987, the building underwent a massive upgrade to allow the building to house governmental offices. This restoration work earned it a Good Effort Award in 1994 by the Urban Redevelopment Authority.
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