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A shophouse is a building type serving both as a residence and a commercial business. [1] It is defined in the dictionary as a building type found in Southeast Asia that is "a shop opening on to the pavement and also used as the owner's residence", [ 2 ] and became a commonly used term since the 1950s. [ 3 ]
Joo Chiat Road (IPA: /ˌdʒuː ˈtʃjɛt/, JOO-CHYET) is a road in Katong District and a residential conservation area located in the east coast of Singapore.Joo Chiat Rd intersect East coast Rd and Marine Parde Rd and end at Marine Parade Rd junction beside the new Marine Parade MRT station.
Temasek Shophouse is a building on Orchard Road in the Museum Planning Area of Singapore. Completed as a townhouse in 1928, it presently serves as a "social impact hub". Completed as a townhouse in 1928, it presently serves as a "social impact hub".
Katong is well known among locals as a food district with a variety of shophouse restaurants serving Peranakan cuisine and particularly, a spicy Singaporean noodle soup known as Katong laksa. Its famous icons include Joo Chiat Road's "food street", Dunman food center, Koon Seng Road & Everitt Road's Peranakan conservation house, Eurasian ...
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While their origins can be traced elsewhere, these building types underwent significant local adaptation and modification before spreading regionally. As a result, they are Singapore's earliest known architectural innovations and exports. These hybrid building typologies were the shophouse and the black and white bungalow.
Peranakan Place today fronting the intersection of Emerald Hill Road and Orchard Road. Peranakan Place (also known as Peranakan Place Complex), formerly known as Peranakan Corner, is a row of six two-storey shophouses facing Orchard Road, built around 1902 at the intersection of Emerald Hill Road and Orchard Road in the planning area of Newton in Singapore.
Heartland Mall (Chinese: 心邻坊) is a shopping mall in Singapore.A relatively small shopping mall in comparison with other malls, it serves the neighbourhood of Kovan.It consists of four floors without a basement, and the fourth level occupied only by tuition centres.