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assers-by may not give this nondescript four-storey walk-up apartment block that is over half a century old a second look, but when the new owners of this unit met with Lawrence Puah, design director of Akihaus Design Studio to discuss the renovation project, he could scarcely contain his excitement. “When I first saw the plans and photographs, I could already visualise the possibilities,” he recalls. His enthusiasm, the profusion of ideas and