Arts Housing Scheme
The Arts Housing Scheme was launched in 1987 to allow disused government premises for the housing of arts organisation at subsidised rates. Basic renovation was either done on the buildings or carried out by the arts organisations, which were given grants to do so.
“One new use which the Ministry of Information and The Arts (MITA) supports is arts housing. It is a good way of breathing new life into old structures. The aesthetics and the activities then enhance each other in a mutually reinforcing way”
- Speech by George Yeo, Minister for Information and The Arts and Second Minister for Foreign Affairs, at the opening of ONE-TWO-SIX Cairnhill Arts Centre (above), in 1993
ONE-TWO-SIX Cairnhill Arts Centre (above) was built in 1928 as part of Anglo-Chinese School. Before it became an arts centre, it served as a teachers’ training college, a centre for vocational and industrial training, and as a home for the adult education board.