By global standards, Singapore’s built environment and urban landscape has been changing at a furious pace over the last hundred years or so. A combination of land scarcity and the rapid development of our towns and estates means that we’ve had to sacrifice a lot of our architectural heritage. Beyond conservation zones and the civic district, it’s not easy to find buildings that are more than 60 or 70 years old, and buildings over 100 years old even rarer. So, it’s probably a good thing that rather than perpetually tearing down and building over our history, a handful of new developments have found a way to balance the unending demand for new homes with the conservation of our architectural heritage. In this article, we’ll list four condominiums that incorporate conservation buildings, featuring how each of them have utilised it to add a distinct touch to the project....