I AM happy that Dr Lee Wei Ling has decided to continue staying at 38, Oxley Road, thus avoiding an outright demolition in the near future ("Mr Lee's daughter to continue living in house"; Tuesday).
When the time comes for a decision on the house, I suggest that it be carefully dismantled and then reassembled in another location, as part of a bigger museum or memorial dedicated to the pioneer leaders of modern Singapore.
The land itself, which, of course, belongs to the Lee family, can then be sold.
With current technology, I am sure it can be done, just like how actor Jackie Chan managed to dismantle centuries-old Chinese houses and reassemble them in Singapore ("Piecing together the past"; April 26, 2014).
This is a compromise between respecting the late Mr and Mrs Lee Kuan Yew's wishes and providing future generations of Singaporeans with a significant historical artefact to remember and learn from.
We can have words, photographs or even replicas, but nothing beats the original thing.
Steve Goh Han Choon
When the time comes for a decision on the house, I suggest that it be carefully dismantled and then reassembled in another location, as part of a bigger museum or memorial dedicated to the pioneer leaders of modern Singapore.
The land itself, which, of course, belongs to the Lee family, can then be sold.
With current technology, I am sure it can be done, just like how actor Jackie Chan managed to dismantle centuries-old Chinese houses and reassemble them in Singapore ("Piecing together the past"; April 26, 2014).
This is a compromise between respecting the late Mr and Mrs Lee Kuan Yew's wishes and providing future generations of Singaporeans with a significant historical artefact to remember and learn from.
We can have words, photographs or even replicas, but nothing beats the original thing.
Steve Goh Han Choon
