Talk:Shophouse
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[edit] Shopoffices and contemporary shophousing
What about shopoffices? The terraced building style, which typically houses stores at the ground floor and office space on the upper floor is similar in design as the shophouse, even referred to as "shophouses" on occasions, and is far more common in Malaysia than in Singapore, given the large scale construction of these buildings through the second half of the 20th century. Shophouse lifestyles are also existent in newer shophouses and shopoffices in Malaysia. - Two hundred percent 07:27, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Merging shophouse into chophouse
Because of the close relationship between these building types, I've proposed that chophouse be merged into the chophouse section of this article. What do you think? --Ssbohio 23:38, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Support
- Chophouse (building) is a bit short at the moment. Merge with this article, and wait until the section is long enough, then split again. - Two hundred percent 05:34, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
- Support, per Two hundred percent. They are quite similar in style, type and function. A new article for chophouse doesn't seem to be very necessary, unless if there are several significant variations between chophouse and shophouse. Acs4b T C U 10:25, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Oppose
[edit] Neutral/Comment
[edit] Nonsense?
"A shophouse is a vernacular architectural building type that is both native and unique to urban Southeast Asia"
there are hundreds of "shop houses" like these in every town in the UK - in fact virtually all local shops are of this form, i fail to see what is uniquely Southeast Asian about it??? 91.105.217.224 13:44, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
- Why not contribute or edit? Maybe write a bit about counterparts in the UK? Create a new article even? I mean, I wrote a section in terraced house pertaining Singaporean and Malaysian counterparts of the terraced house, which number in the tens and thousands in the region. - Two hundred percent 19:43, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
There is another feature that is uniquely South East Asian (and not found in the UK) that is not specifically mentioned in this article, and that is the 'five foot way' or arcade along the roadside. This feature did not spontaneously occur: the first municipal legislation that made them mandatory can be traced back to Raffles. I'll give the reference in the edit. It was not easy to implement: naturally builders want to build on and use as much of their land as possible; even to this day municipal authorities have to occasionally make sure that the arcades are kept free from shopkeepers blocking the path with their goods.Tessellar 12:10, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
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This example is of terrace houses converted to commercial use. They are not, strictly speaking, shophouses.Tessellar 16:41, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
