Singapore shophouse

At Canvas House, traditional features include timber, double-swing entrance doors and signage bearing the Low family name. Tagged: Exterior, House Building Type, Brick Siding Material, and Tile Roof Material.

This Singapore shophouse along Niven Road is one of the 63 projects nominated this year for the prestigious World Interior of the Year award, by the Inside World Festival of Interiors, an event held jointly with the World Architectural Festival. The event will be held in Berlin this year, and the overall winner will be announced on 18 Nov.

For this family, home is a conservation shophouse with a modern update.

House at Neil Road celebrates the charm of the transitional-style Peranakan shophouse while creating sensitive additions by ONG&ONG, in Singapore.

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Shophouses can be - and are - multi-functional ..... a shop, a home, a restaurant or even a business, whatever you want it to be! Typically, shophouses consist of shops on the ground floor which open up to a public arcade or "five-foot way", and which have residential accommodation upstairs. The shophouses would abut each other to form rows with regular facade, fire walls and adherence to street alignment. A great site for information on Shophouses and where to locate them is Singapore.Sg…

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These shophouses, with shops on the ground floor and housing above, are very common around the older areas of Singapore, including Chinatown, Little India, and Geylang. The upper rooms were often densely packed, similar to NYC tenements of the late 19th century. Squalid conditions lasted until the 1970s, when the Singaporean government cleaned them up.