Flat coloured two storey shophouses line narrow lanes that end at the gold domed Sultan Mosque.
What Kampong Glam looks like
is lined with a run of two storey shophouses in flat blue, yellow and pink plaster, each front arched over a five foot way at street level. Upper floor windows keep their timber shutters, painted white or left as bare wood. One facade has its own construction date, 1933, above the window frames.
is just over four metres wide in parts, reputedly the narrowest street in the city state. runs as a paved pedestrian lane from North Bridge Road toward the mosque, lined with the same two storey shophouses in brighter paint. runs a block over, its shophouses kept as shops behind the same style of five foot way.
Muscat Street ends at , where two gold onion domes sit over a corner ringed at the base with the sawn off ends of glass bottles. Two eight storey minarets rise from the building's eastern face, and smaller corner turrets carry their own small spired domes.
North of the mosque, the former Istana Kampong Gelam sits behind its own walled forecourt at Sultan Gate, now the Malay Heritage Centre. , a short walk along Victoria Street, is faced entirely in blue tile under a single gold dome.
Shot in Kampong Glam
The video for "Could I Love You Any More," Reneé Dominique featuring Jason Mraz, was shot along Haji Lane. The camera follows them past the lane's painted shopfronts near its Beach Road end, by the Piedra Negra restaurant.
"Could I Love You Any More," Reneé Dominique featuring Jason Mraz, music video, 2019
Dominique and Mraz are shown walking and performing along the lane's shuttered shopfronts. The lane's Beach Road end, where Piedra Negra sits on the corner, is the stretch named as the shoot location. Street View
What Kampong Glam can double for
Jonker Street in Melaka, Malaysia
Jonker Street has the same five foot way shophouses in pastel plaster that North Bridge Road does, built across the same Straits Settlements decades. Its Peranakan tile panels and carved timber fascias give it a richer finish than the plainer Early style fronts here. Hold wide shots to the plainer blocks and avoid the tiled panels, which look distinctly Peranakan rather than Early shophouse style. Try searching five foot way shophouses now.
Armenian Street keeps the same pastel plaster shophouse fronts and covered five foot ways as North Bridge Road, built under the same Straits Eclectic style between the 1910s and the 1930s. Clan houses and shuttered upper floors continue the look for several blocks. Large street murals cover several walls here that Kampong Glam's fronts do not carry, so wide shots need framing around them. Try searching pastel shophouse fronts now.
Petaling Street has the same five foot way shophouses in plaster fronts, painted bright yellow, pink and green rather than the flatter colour range here. The upper floor fretwork and plaster mouldings run heavier than the plainer Early style fronts on North Bridge Road. Chinese signage and red lanterns need swapping out for a Malay or Arab quarter. The mouldings here run heavier than the plainer Early style fronts this page describes. Try searching bright plaster shophouses now.
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