Bicycle Bay

This is a bicycle parking bay. (Sorry for the blur photo - it was taken by my mobile phone)

Wondered if the owner is parking just the wheel or did someone stole the bicycle and left only the wheel locked in the bicycle bay.

For more bicycle parking bay, you can view my previous posting.

Chinatown Shophouses 6 Final Part

Finally, this would be my last posting on Chinatown Shophouses. Hope you all enjoyed the photos of these shophouses.

This shophouse had very colourful windows.

You can't miss this shophouse with all the yellow flowers on its blue background in the heart of chinatown.

Chinatown Shophouses(5)

More photos of shophouses. Some are used as shops, residential and offices.

The above shophouses are converted to be a boutique hotel. To know more about The Scarlet-A Boutique Hotel, you can view their website.

I love the designs of these shophouses and very fascinated by their windows. I always love taking photos of wndows and doors.

Closer look at the foral designs.

Chinatown Shophouses (4)

I like this beautiful built shophouse. You could see that it was built in 1910. In the olden days, builders would engraved the year the building was built on them. I am glad the owner kept most of the original architectural designs except for a fresh coat of paint.

Another beautiful architecturally built shophouse in the heart of chinatown.

Inside this building are many different shops and offices.

Chinatown Shophouses (3)

This shop house is of the same design as the shophouse that I posted in my earlier post on chinatown shophouses (2), but the owner did not do a very elaborate painting and decoration on its building.

The shophouse with red and white paintings on its exterior was the one I posted in previous post.

A closer look and comparision on the windows of the two shophouses. The original shophouse bear some european designs while the newly painted shophouse was painted red to make it looked very chinese.

Another shophouse being renovated by a new owner. Look at the circled area, a plant decided to grow inside a crack of the wall. It must be planted by some birds carrying some seeds to the building. :)

I have more beautiful photos of shophouses in chinatown in later posts.