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Architects: HKS Architects
- Area: 2000 ft²
- Year: 2016
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Photographs:David Yeow
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Lead Architect: Kenneth Yeo
Text description provided by the architects. New York has its row-house, New Orleans has its shotgun house and Singapore has its shophouse.
Like the city, Singapore shophouses elegantly blend East and West, combining materials like Chinese porcelain tile with batwing-shaped air vents with Portuguese shutters with Corinthian pilasters. Constructed between the 1840s and the 1960s they formed the majority of pre-World War II urban fabric of Singapore and are some of the earliest examples of “live-work environments” with merchant shops on the lower level and family quarters above.
