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Amara Sanctuary Sentosa bags heritage prize

Tuesday, 9 October 20073 min read

SINGAPORE – Amara Sanctuary Resort, the stylish new resort on Singapore’s Sentosa Island has won the Urban Redevelopment Authority’s (URA) Architectural Heritage Awards 2007.

The 121-room Amara Sanctuary Resort opened in May and includes carefully restored historic buildings from Singapore’s colonial past.

The resort’s Verandah and Courtyard suites are located in an original two-storey barracks buildings built in the 1920s when Sentosa Island was a military stronghold and which were originally the living quarters of British soldiers before and after World War II.