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Architect Soo K. Chan restores the shophouse typology, informed by the memory of growing up in one within the UNESCO World Heritage Site of George Town in Penang.
In a groundbreaking collaboration, Studio Carter, based in Los Angeles, has joined forces with Singapore’s DP Architects to reimagine the iconic shophouse concept, giving birth to the Mondrian Singapore Duxton.
How do we design and provide better living conditions for the marginalised in urban cities? We hear from The CHA Project, JIA Studios and The Shelter Company on how Doonya could be a game changer.
They’d been empty for nearly a decade, but now their restoration has been recognised in the URA Architectural Heritage Awards 2019. Surbana Jurong Consultants and Asylum have resurrected a series of shophouses into the light-filled, community enhancing Temasek Shophouse.
How is our engagement with our residential typologies evolving? Aamer Taher and Terre have transformed a heritage-listed terrace house into a jewel box of forms and experiences.
HYLA Architects maximise the mixed-use potential of Singapore’s shophouse vernacular.
