Thatched houses will be replaced by multi-story house and villas.
He drew his inspiration from the work of Gros and Laborde to develop a multi-story wooden house with veranda and columns.
The city is crossed by an irrigation system of channels that provide water, built a ballgame court and began construction of multi-story houses; some constructions had up to four levels.
But now, with an aging population and high land costs in some areas, builders are finding a greater demand for multi-story houses with elevators.
For the developer, he said, multi-story houses make sense.
They were headquartered in the rooftop of a multi-story house on Spring Garden Lane.
Complete districts from that time are still in place, replete with multi-story houses (called tenements or "lands"), churches, taverns, and tollhouses.
Chandral boasts a number of highly decorated multi-story houses which have been made as holiday homes by Chandralis living abroad.
During the 1950s the pro-Communist underground cell network Hailiushe (海流社) was headquartered in the rooftop of a multi-story house on Spring Garden Lane.
Children living in apartment buildings and multi-story houses need protection against falling out of windows.