Inside a Singapore home that trades glass walls for New England charm

[SINGAPORE] In a quiet and leafy residential area off Holland Road stands an architectural surprise: a stately New England-style “brownstone” house.

Surrounded by older, semi-detached homes with their boxy forms and pitched roofs, the building is an eye-catching anomaly.

But this isn’t just a nostalgic façade; behind its charming features is a design conceived using digital wind simulation to solve the specific challenges of the Singapore climate and setting. These would include heat, monsoons and even marauding monkeys.