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The image is a display panel at the Singapore General Hospital, located at the coordinates 1.28, 103.836. It describes the architecture of Bowyer Block, which was opened in 1926, is a three-story building with key administrative functions and wards for Europeans (the locals were in modest adjacent wards). The clock tower marked its center with flanking wings serving as wards. It was designed by Frank Dowdeswell, reflects a fusion of French Rococo and Baroque styles, and was built later in Britain. It is a fusion of the French Rococo style and Baroque. The panel describes the layout of the hospital and refers to the Nightingale ward plan, which was ubiquitous to hospital designs, having been promoted by Florence Nightingale herself from the middle of the 19th century and into the 20th. It considered the miasmic disease transmission theory that assumed ill-health was caused by miasma or bad air. This thinking, therefore, influenced the pavilion-designed plans of hospitals, incorporating well-ventilated and lofty ceilings. The panel also shows a simple, almost architectural rendering of Bowyer Block. The panel also explains the reliance on functions as one would see in Greek Tuscan order and bear entablature. It reflects the styling of ancient Roman architecture with an emphasis on detail and proportion. Each order has four columns (tetrastyle) and a concave effect (entasis).
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