ISBN 9789810597160
Talisman Publishing
Hardback: 208 pages
Oct 2010

S$60.00
Singapore Shophouse
Text: Julian Davison
Photography: Luca Invernizzi Tettoni
Co-edition with the National Archives of Singapore


The Singapore Shophouse is a fully researched and newly photographed celebration of a architectural style, still extant but sadly neglected over the years as Singapore has grown and become highrised. This original and massively illustrated volume provides comprehensive covereage and reference of both Shophouses and the much cherished terrace houses in all the heritage areas remaining and protected in Singapore. Includes major sections on Defining the Shophouse; Development of the Shophouse and Living in the Shophouse today with major case studies of award winning examples of sensitive and luxurious new conversions.conversions.

Singapore
Photography by Luca Invernizzi Tettoni

Singapore is a microcosm of the many and varying cultures found in Asia. Everywhere you look you see a different face, another style of dress, a different building style: it’s a layered country, full of contradiction, yet homogenised in a way no other book has seemingly achieved.

This new book showcases these particularly Singaporean sights: the contrasts and contradictions as well as the parallels.

This book , like Singapore is unique and a perfect memory of time profitably spent..
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