From technicolour shophouses, traditional vernacular buildings and surviving structures from Singapore's colonial past, these are the most beautiful traditional architecture in Singapore.

When photographer Peter Steinhauer first moved to Singapore in 2000, it was impossible to avoid the sight of the public housing buildings. "They just looked so bizarrely odd but beautiful ...

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It was designed by local practice WOHA, which has been responsible for some of Singapore’s most striking contemporary buildings and a lot of the neighbourhood’s lushest luxury hotels.

"I was born in 1959," Yip said. "In Singapore that year, there's no tall buildings." But in the '70s, urban growth took off, and that, coupled with large-scale deforestation over decades ...