[1] With a height of 103 metres (338 feet), the 31-storey People's Park Complex building was the first shopping centre of its kind in Southeast Asia and set the pattern for later retail developments in Singapore.

[3] The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) subsequently found that the presence of such storerooms on that floor was not authorized, and was in breach of fire safety regulations.

[4] The three lifts in the residential block of People's Park Complex have been subject to media attention, due to their unreliability and frequent breakdowns.

Its name as well as the block of flats was the closest to Le Corbusier's ideal of high-rise living, as expressed in his Marseilles Unité d'Habitation, both in concept and in form.

Its 25 levels have been nicknamed "streets in the air", a development of the Corbusian ideal, and are intended to offer convenient spots for social interaction and intermingling.

The shopping centre incorporates the first "city room" or atrium in Singapore, a concept that was pioneered by several Japanese architects under the Metabolist Movement in the 1960s.

The sidewalk located outside People's Park Complex is famous for the elderly cobblers who set up makeshift workspaces to repair shoes, a tradition present since the 1950s.