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733 Mountbatten Road became in 2008 the first residential property here to win a Unesco award for innovation for successfully adding floor space with a contemporary extension, while retaining and conserving the original building.
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Rachel Au-Yong
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In 1999, a man fell in love with a dilapidated bungalow at 733 Mountbatten Road.
Sitting on brick piers on soft marine clay, the house, which had not been occupied for almost a decade, had begun to sink. Its staircase railings were crumbling. Asbestos had infiltrated its ceiling panels.
