MacDonald House: The MacDonald House bombing

[Cecil Lee]

The MacDonald House is the last remaining office building withred bricks facade.

The building was built 3 years after World War 2.

It was and designed by Reginal Eyre of the architectural firm Palmer and Turner.

It was one of the 1st high-rise buildings in Orchard Road. During that time, the MacDonald House housed mainly British, American and Australian companies. I remember clearly that the show rooms of British made cars such as the mini-clubman was along this area.

On March 1965, in an incident known as the MacDonald House bombing, two Indonesian saboteurs placed a bomb on the mezzanine floor.At the time of the bombing the buildinghoused the Australian High Commission and the Japanese Consulate.