Plough through the links in the Tiong Bahru Estate blog, and you’ll find that it really is just a real estate site – it’s packed with a lot of information for potential buyers and renters looking to set up in Tiong Bahru. So what makes this blog so special then? Simple: it knows Tiong Bahru’s place in the history of Singapore neighbourhoods.
The construction style of the estate is a mix of art deco and local Straits settlement shop-house architecture. The flats feature rounded balconies, flat rooftops, spiral staircases, light wells and underground storage and shelters. One notable feature of Tiong Bahru estate is that all its streets are named after Chinese pioneers of the 19th and early 20th centuries (Lim Liak, Kim Pong, Guan Chuan, Chay Yan etc.).It is apparent that a lot of effort was put into designing the estate with a series of flats that are visually aesthetic. Thus the flats in Tiong Bahru estate contrasted markedly with those of the much later post-war mass housing programs undertaken by SIT’s successor, the Housing and Development Board. In contrast with the aesthetic art deco theme of the Tiong Bahru flats, the flats built by the Housing Board in the 1950s and 1960s are starkly utilitarian in appearance and design; where flats are almost identical in their two-dimensional “matchbox” style.
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Hi i loved your post. i love you too. will you tell me more about Tiong Bahru? thanks
Posted on July 21st, 2011 at 2:39 pm
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