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“The idea was externally, it looks all the same, but behind each door it’s a different sort of world.”

What could have been just another row of luxe shophouse conversions became an exercise of exploring the potential of a shophouse in a red-light district in Singapore. Justin Zhuang covers how the houses along Lorong 24a got customised makeovers from different architects.

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Saying No to Sameness, Wall Street Journal, Oct 2012.
By Justin Zhuang.

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