Canvas House is a co-living space in Singapore with all-white interiors
Ministry of Design has created completely white interiors for this co-living space, which occupies a traditional shophouse in Singapore.
Situated at the heart of Singapore's buzzing Tanjong Pagar neighbourhood, Canvas House provides shared accommodation for creative locals and members of the ex-pat community.
It takes over a four-storey shophouse ? a type of building commonly seen around Southeast Asia, which has a commercial business at its front and living spaces at its rear.
Locally based Ministry of Design completed the interiors of Canvas House, which soft-launched at the beginning of this year and already has a handful of tenants.
Almost every surface has simply been painted white, an attempt by the practice to both mask the building's unattractive, time-worn features and "provide a canvas" for any future aesthetic alterations that may be carried out.
"When it comes to adaptive reuse projects, the question is always the same, how do we tread the line between the past and the present"" said Colin Seah, founder of the studio.
"If one opts for the project to be just about preservation, it's as good as time standing still, which could be paralysing and inhibiting," he continued.
"But at the same time, neither do we want to disregard history completely by creating something too foreign or novel."
White paint covers the walls, floors, ceiling and the array of vintage furniture pieces that dress the living spaces. The practice...
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