A plaster specialist was brought in to repair walls instead of painting over various details. The judges’ chambers and meeting room still have features such as the original teak flooring. Architectural details were kept whenever possible, with the lobby staircase and marble pillars remaining nearly untouched, just lightly restored. Originally a Law Courts building, the structure, Asia’s first multi-storey steel-framed building, is grand with its three-storey colonnades.
