Wheelock Place (), (Tamil ) is a 21-floor office tower and shopping mall on Singapore's Orchard Road.
Background The building was designed by Kisho Kurokawa and completed in 1994 as Lane Crawford Place ().Lane Crawford Place, Works and Projects, Kisho Kurokawa, 2006, retrieved 15 February 2012. It is now owned by Wharf Estates Singapore, formerly "Wheelock Properties (Singapore)", a division of Hong Kong's Wheelock and Co.
It opened as 'Lane Crawford Place', housing the upmarket department store Lane Crawford over five floors. It featured the first curved escalators in Singapore, echoing Lane Crawford's installation of the first public curved escalators in the world in 1993 at their [Times Square (Hong Kong)] location, developed by Mitsubishi Electric. The store shut in 1996 and the building was renamed Wheelock Place following Lane Crawford's exit.
The mall has an underpass to Shaw House and ION Orchard.Lynda Hong, "Pedestrian crossing between ION Orchard, Wheelock Place to be closed," Channel News Asia, 27 July 2009. It was the site of Borders' flagship Singapore store until its closure in 2011.Sharon See, "Borders closes flagship store at Wheelock Place," Channel News Asia, 19 August 2011. Following which, Marks & Spencer became Wheelock Place's main tenant.
A new book shop, Zall Bookstore, opened in 2021.
The mall houses multiple homegrown retail, food, and lifestyle brands. Among these are Browhaus, Cedele, and Privè.
See also List of shopping malls in Singapore
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