Every time I discover a beautifully renovated Tiong Bahru flat, I always wished that HDB would build something like these charming white flats again.

This is a project by asolidplan.

The owner is a French art curator who wanted the apartment to be utilized as a partial gallery of her various work. I think the designer has delivered just that. Nothing over the top here. By thoughtfully stripping off the plasters of a few walls and beams, it allows the nostalgic elements and the owner’s art collection to be the main character of the apartment.

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