LIVING HISTORY
Peter Ow’s love for conservation shophouses began with a café that he owned some years back. It was operating within a conservation shophouse along Armenian Street and the renovation process provided him with invaluable experience in conserving and transforming such properties, as well as develop a deeper appreciation for them. When he chanced upon the opportunity to own this conservation shophouse located within the Joo Chiat Conservation Area, he seized it.
Belonging to the Second Transitional Shophouse style, it was built in the late 1920s and the condition had deteriorated over the years. A provision shop occupied the
