Good morning Singapore!
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@skinnylatte twinsies!! https://w.wiki/SWBA
(The dome, nicknamed the "clamshell", is where city council meets)
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@skinnylatte When I was there last (~3y ago) I really loved how much greenery had gotten integrated with architecture, wish other places could pick up the habit too
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@skinnylatte I really hope it rotates.
@tsrams @skinnylatte this is exactly what I was thinking
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I used to own a cocktail mug in the form and from the cylindrical hotel in the background from 1988
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I used to own a cocktail mug in the form and from the cylindrical hotel in the background from 1988 thanks for the memories@PeterSommerlad ah! Yes it’s gone through many iterations. Still a nice hotel.
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Good morning Singapore! It’s good to be home.
(All of these 40-60 storey apartments are new public housing. In the background, shorter 12 storey public housing, and the port of Singapore, one of the busiest ports in the world)
@skinnylatte Selamat datang!
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Almost all public housing and facilities in this picture.
All the tall buildings are public housing. The swimming pool and track are public facilities. Only the low rise single family homes (what we call ‘landed house’) are not public housing
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Almost all public housing and facilities in this picture.
All the tall buildings are public housing. The swimming pool and track are public facilities. Only the low rise single family homes (what we call ‘landed house’) are not public housing
@skinnylatte That's really cool! On first glance, it looked to me like a very expenisve and very private neighborhood in Barranquilla (Colombia).
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Good morning Singapore! It’s good to be home.
(All of these 40-60 storey apartments are new public housing. In the background, shorter 12 storey public housing, and the port of Singapore, one of the busiest ports in the world)
They can't do that in the USA because there is only funding to build public housing, and no funding to maintain it. Public housing is still workable, but nothing higher than 3 stories tall. Once your building is taller than can be maintained with a cheap bucket truck, it'll inevitably fall. -
Almost all public housing and facilities in this picture.
All the tall buildings are public housing. The swimming pool and track are public facilities. Only the low rise single family homes (what we call ‘landed house’) are not public housing
@skinnylatte one of the world's great accommodation success stories, along with Vienna
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Almost all public housing and facilities in this picture.
All the tall buildings are public housing. The swimming pool and track are public facilities. Only the low rise single family homes (what we call ‘landed house’) are not public housing
A Sufi shrine next to a Jade Emperor celebration, inside the central business district
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A Sufi shrine next to a Jade Emperor celebration, inside the central business district
An architectural feature from this part of the world. Kaki lima, also known as ‘five foot way’. Many older buildings (known as shophouses: shops below, living quarters above)
Have a five foot walkway outside them that provides shelter from the sun and rain
Edit: info about five foot way
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An architectural feature from this part of the world. Kaki lima, also known as ‘five foot way’. Many older buildings (known as shophouses: shops below, living quarters above)
Have a five foot walkway outside them that provides shelter from the sun and rain
Edit: info about five foot way
@skinnylatte it looks similar to the porticos in Bologna (though they're a bit wider than five ft.).
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An architectural feature from this part of the world. Kaki lima, also known as ‘five foot way’. Many older buildings (known as shophouses: shops below, living quarters above)
Have a five foot walkway outside them that provides shelter from the sun and rain
Edit: info about five foot way
@skinnylatte I remember this in Little India as we walked up and down the main street. A bit more cluttered than in your wonderful pic.
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An architectural feature from this part of the world. Kaki lima, also known as ‘five foot way’. Many older buildings (known as shophouses: shops below, living quarters above)
Have a five foot walkway outside them that provides shelter from the sun and rain
Edit: info about five foot way
@skinnylatte Wish more hot European places did that too, only seen it in Bologna I think, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porticoes_of_Bologna
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An architectural feature from this part of the world. Kaki lima, also known as ‘five foot way’. Many older buildings (known as shophouses: shops below, living quarters above)
Have a five foot walkway outside them that provides shelter from the sun and rain
Edit: info about five foot way
in the cities Meran and Bozen/Bolzano of South Tyrol you get those features as Lauben(gänge), just a bit wider. The old town houses like to show off a bit more. Only you cannot buy dried lizards there as I've seen in your home-city in the 1980s.
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An architectural feature from this part of the world. Kaki lima, also known as ‘five foot way’. Many older buildings (known as shophouses: shops below, living quarters above)
Have a five foot walkway outside them that provides shelter from the sun and rain
Edit: info about five foot way
Another five foot way, along Club St
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@skinnylatte Wish more hot European places did that too, only seen it in Bologna I think, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porticoes_of_Bologna
@arjjra @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io It reminded me of the rows in Chester but those are on the first floor as well as street level.
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Another five foot way, along Club St
Sri Mariamman temple in the rain
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Sri Mariamman temple in the rain
@skinnylatte I’m really loving this thread. I feel like I’m getting a private tour.
