Wordless Wednesday: Shophouse

'Wordless Wednesday: Postcard' is recording all the postcards that I had bought from time to time for exchange purpose.

Shophouse is a vernacular architectural building type that is commonly seen in areas such as urban Southeast Asia. Shophouses are mostly two or three stories high, with a shop on the ground floor for mercantile activity and a residence above the shop. This mixed-use building form characterizes the historical centers of most towns and cities in the Southeast Asia region. Typically, shophouses consist of shops on the ground floor which open up to a public arcade or "five-foot way" and which have residential accommodation upstairs.