Retrieved from https://studentshare.org/architecture/1626276-container-architecture-part2
https://studentshare.org/architecture/1626276-container-architecture-part2.
Container Architecture part2 Singapore is a sovereign as well as a highland country in South East Asia. The city has interesting features given that it is an island and has nice architectural styles besides the friendly living standards. This paper seeks to portray the suitability of Singapore for a home sight. With this regard, the paper considered aspects like median household income, median home price, and education average level. According to Households income trends in year 2012 report, which was published by statistics department in Singapore, the monthly average income for households who live in condors is $19,026 (Diane).
For the families who live in landed properties, their average monthly income is $25,419. Those that are at upper echelons actually make much more. Families in the top docile, (top 10%) happen to make a disproportionally high monthly average of $30,379 (Diane). The households within the next docile make up to about half of this high monthly average while in the next deciles down the line the figures go down linearly. There has been some significant increase in the resident’s level of education in Singapore time after time.
Among those aged in between 25-39 years old, the university graduate percentage increased quite significantly between 2001 and 2011 (Ministry of Education, Singapore). Over the same period, there was a lower rate of increase in the number of holders of diplomas and professional certificates. All this improvement in level of education has been facilitated by the government’s devotion to improve living standards of its residents. In Singapore, education is under the management of the ministry of education (Ministry of Education, Singapore).
The ministry controls administration and development of state schools, which enjoy government funding. About 20% of national budget goes to education in Singapore.Singapore’s architecture shows styles and influences from different places and periods. These include eclectic styles, hybrid styles from colonialism and some tendency of contemporary architecture incorporating many trends from all around the world. Traditional architecture includes local hybrid houses, Malay houses, black and white bungalows and worship places which reflect the ethnic as well as religious diversity of city-state and civic as well as commercial architecture of European neoclassical, Palladian, gothic, and renaissance styles (Powell, pg.46). From 1970s, the city has been dominated modern architecture like the brutalistic style.
Many buildings today especially to the government activities include Temasek Tower, Singapore Land tower and many others. Singapore city is thus not a bad sight to set up a home because it carries countless interesting features and high living standards.Works CitedDiane. Property Prices vs Median Household Income. 2 Dec 2011. Web. 27 Jan 2014. Print. Ministry of Education, Singapore. Education Statistics Digest. 16 Nov 2012. Web. 27 Jan 2014. Print.Powell, Robert. Singapore Architecture: A short history.
Hong Kong: Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd, 2004. Print.
Read More