shophouses

At the same time, it is a short walk to the cultural attractions of Chinatown and Tanjong Pagar, such as shophouses and food markets.

NYT > Home Page 2010

At the same time, it is a short walk to the cultural attractions of Chinatown and Tanjong Pagar, such as shophouses and food markets.

NYT > Travel 2010

The side of the shophouses at Stewart Lane (off Love Lane).

Oh, Penang! Jerine 2009

Along Armenian Street, named for immigrants like the Sarkies Brothers who opened the Eastern & Oriental Hotel on the waterfront here in 1885 before moving on to establish Raffles Singapore three years later, a handful of two and three story shophouses have been spruced up as Straits Collection.

Cynthia Rosenfeld: Exploring Penang, Malaysia's Colony of Cool Cynthia Rosenfeld 2011

On the main street of Sakkarin Road, Chinese-style shophouses (designed to contain a business on the ground floor and a residence upstairs) alternate with French colonial villas, administrative buildings and schools; along side streets, traditional timber houses built on stilts sit beside French-meets-Laotian homes built of mortar on the ground floor and timber above.

A Tale of Two Cities 2010

A famous local joke held that Rangoon's High Court (1911), with a clock tower rising above the nearby shophouses and plenty of the city's ubiquitous bright red brick, was designed by "a convict with a grudge against the judge."

Myanmar's Colonial Treasures Threatened 2010

A row of traditional Chinese shophouses (with a business on the ground floor and living space above) under renovation earlier this year on George Town's Stewart Street.

Historic Structures 2010

This neighborhood, Immortalized in Graham Greene ' s novel " The Quiet American, " was once made up of Chinese and French colonial shophouses typically two or three-story structures with a business on the ground level and a residence upstairs.

City Walk: Ho Chi Minh City Samantha Coomber 2010

George Town's historic structures range from grand colonial-style government buildings and traditional Chinese shophouses (with a business on the ground floor and living space above) to domed mosques, ornate Indian and Chinese temples and prim churches.

A Tale of Two Cities 2010

Called "bird houses" by locals, these are shophouses that have been converted most of them illegally to breed swiftlets for their nests, which are con sidered a delicacy and sell for between $1,250 and $5,600 a kilogram.

A Tale of Two Cities 2010