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Pearl Bank Apartments is a high-rise private residential building on Pearl's Hill in Outram, near the Chinatown of Singapore.As the tallest and densest residential building in Singapore when completed in 1976, Pearl Bank Apartments was one of Singapore's pioneers of high-rise, high-density living, and influenced urban development in Singapore and other cities in southeast Asia.HistoryDevelopmentThe Pearl Bank Apartments was the first all-housing project to be undertaken in the Urban Renewal Department of the Housing and Development Board's Sale of Sites programme. The residential project was the subject of the programme's third sale in 1969.With a height of 113m, the Pearl Bank Apartments was the tallest residential building in Singapore when it was completed in June 1976.Planned redevelopment of siteOn 4 August 2007, the Pearl Bank Apartments which is located on a 8000m2, 99-year leasehold site was put up for an en bloc sale. The tender closed on 18 September 2007, but fetched no bids. Another tender closed on February 19, 2008, failing again, and the collective sale agreement lapsed on August 1, 2008.ArchitectureThe Pearl Bank Apartments is a 38-storey hollow ¾ cylindrical tower, resembling a horseshoe, designed for a total occupancy of 1,500 persons. When completed in 1976, the building had the largest number of apartments contained in a single block, and had the highest density of any private modern residential building at 1,853 persons per hectare. It was designed by Singaporean architect Tan Cheng Siong of Archurban Architects Planners.