The West Coast Road Estate was one of them: a colonial property to be reimagined as a refined boutique-hotel experience — elegant, welcoming and timeless, where modern comfort met European charm without slipping into pastiche. It is a project we keep in our journal not as a private home, but as a piece of work worth remembering — a record of how we treat history when a building has a story already worth telling.
We set the architecture in a Modern Colonial, boutique-European register: a white plaster façade with dark trims, black metal balconies and railings, French-style tall windows and a symmetrical, orderly massing, grounded by a warm brick base. Resort-hotel outdoor seating extends the interior life outward. Every move was weighed for hospitality — circulation, sightlines, arrival — not merely appearance.
The reimagined estate at dusk — a boutique hotel that reads as assured, hospitable and quietly grand.
By day, the landmark holds its colonial bones while the new programme comes alive around it.
A refined boutique hotel
— elegant, welcoming, and
timeless: modern comfort
with European charm.
Within, the language turns to quiet luxury. A curved marble reception anchors the arrival; checkerboard marble corridors and a brass lift lobby carry the European register through the building; a skylit garden gallery threads daylight and greenery into the plan; and the suites are composed for calm. Materials, lighting and proportion are tuned for the feel of a hotel rather than a house.
The arrival — a curved marble reception desk set against dark panelling.
A brass-and-marble lift lobby keeps the boutique-hotel register consistent.
Checkerboard marble corridors — a colonial-European motif, handled with restraint.
A skylit gallery brings daylight and planting deep into the plan.
A guest suite composed for calm — warm neutrals, panelled walls, soft light.
Bathrooms detailed in stone and black metal, quietly hotel-grade.
Delivered end to end — consultancy, design and project management under one roof — the estate reads as a single, coherent vision carried from concept through coordination to completion. A landmark given a second life, and a clear record of what we mean by refining space and designing the unexpected.
TDA Singapore provides design consultancy, interior design, project management and procurement for residential, commercial and hospitality spaces.
TDA works across residential, commercial and hospitality interiors, developing design approaches tailored to each project.
TDA is based in Singapore and works on projects in Singapore and selected international locations.
Yes. Depending on the project scope, TDA can provide project management and procurement support alongside design consultancy and interior design.
