YESS Group Pte Ltd. In 2010, SLA terminated the contract with YESS Group after it failed to pay rent and took back the land. On 22 March 2011, Furen International School (FIS), a boarding school, took over the running of the property. The school converted the building into its administration building, a nerve centre to run the surrounding academic and hostel buildings. In order to do justice to this beautiful building, FIS worked closely with the Preservation Monument Board in restoring the building to its former glory; all of it privately funded by the school without subsidy from the government. The site was returned to the State at the end of 2019 and work is being carried out on it to incorporate it into the Sembawang Sports and Community Hub. Architecture The two-storey colonial residence was designed in a unique Arts and Crafts architectural style popular in the 19th century. Former Admiralty House had been attributed to English architect Sir Edwin Lutyens. There is however, no evidence of this, other than Lutyens having been closely connected with the late 19th Century Arts and Crafts designs in Britain. By the 1900s, he had already moved away from the style and was advanced in age and poor health at the time of the design and construction of the structure. The house, resembling a traditional English cottage, sits on a lush, open garden and has an interesting internal layout and of "asymmetrical" design. It is two storeys high with a one-storey wing on the north-west side. The building is on a site, which in its time as Furen International School, included six hostel blocks, six academic blocks, dance studio, swimming pool, tennis courts, basketball courts, laundry block and an air-raid shelter. References Buildings and structures completed in 1940 Landmarks in Singapore National monuments of Singapore Sembawang