Andrew Stevenson has recently joined the sales team at The Modern House. He selected Tiong Bahru, one of Singapore’s oldest housing estates, as his favourite collection of buildings.

Built on the site of a former cemetery, the estate has gone from being a highly desirable place to live, to a deeply unfashionable one and back again, all in less than 80 years.

Andrew says:

‘I became fascinated with Tiong Bahru when I was at university in Singapore.  Many of the residential blocks have cafés, bars and shops on the ground level, which I think gives the small community a nice balance. I don’t think the architect ever became that well-known, but they obviously took their cues from the modernist movement.  I enjoyed the quietness in comparison to the relative intensity of central Singapore.’