Beauty World Centre

About

Beauty World Centre is a housing and shopping complex in between Upper Bukit Timah Road and Jalan Anak Bukit in Bukit Timah, Singapore. Announced in 1979 as the Anak Bukit Resettlement Centre, it was built by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) to relocate the tenants of the soon-to-be-demolished Beauty World Town. The complex, comprising a retail podium, a carpark and a residential tower, was completed as the Beauty World Centre in 1983 and officially opened in January 1984. The retail podium included an open-air hawker centre, the Beauty World Food Centre, which become popular in of itself. In the years following its completion, it was considered the most successful complex of its kind built by the authority.

In 1989, the authority transferred ownership of the building to a newly-established subsidiary, Pidemco, which carried out major renovations for the retail podium in 1993 and renamed the residential tower Bukit Timah View before selling it off in the mid-1990s. Pidemco sold off the mall to its tenants in 1998. In the years that followed, the mall suffered from increasing competition from newer malls and ageing tenants, and has since become "cobwebbed", though the Beauty World Food Centre has remained popular.