Restorations to Empress Place, Singapore

The Empress Place was built as a courthouse in 1864 and is one of the National Monuments of Singapore.

Acanthus Clews Architects were commissioned by the Singapore Government to produce a report on the condition of the building. The study investigated the effects of unsympathetic alterations and poor detailing. Air conditioning and other modern intrusions had resulted in substantial failure of the historic building fabric.

The report included a thermographic survey and computer analysis of the environmental conditions, which led to a major repair project. The building is now the Museum of Asian Civilisation.

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