Singapore Sketchbook:The Resto

by Gretchen Liu

Book Overview

Singapore Sketchbook is a celebration of streets and buildings, classic scenes and marvelous architectural details. Singapore is a thriving, modern city; but a mixture of modernity and a rich... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9813018089
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Didier Millet
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.8" x 11.6"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful!

A really gorgeous book with just the right amount of architectural and political history to make it part coffee table book, part textbook.

Singapore sketchbook

A very beautifully done tour of the restoration of colonial Singapore rendered in watercolors and charcoal sketches. The book gives glimpses into the everyday street life of Singapore in the 1980's. A provocative Journal which makes the reader long for a spur of the moment trip to the orient.

Beautiful sketches of Singapore architecture

The watercolours of colonial architecture by Graham Byfield do greater justice than mimetic photography in this instance. There is a nostalgic quality that is retained by preserving images of old Singapore buildings - some of which are no longer with us, such as the Katong Red Bakery, in this manner. Great attention is paid to detailing, such as in the Chinese Baroque facades of the terrace houses ("shophouses') in the Blair Rd district. As an added bonus, there are many little vignettes scattered around recording life in Singapore in the mid 80s - coffee shop life, ice cream street carts etc. For anyone who loves Colonial and Straits Chinese Singapore architecture, this book makes a lovely keepsake.