The grafting of foldable iron grille door into what is Late Straits architecture in the Straits Settlement States adds an interesting element to the facades; it had started well with the combination of British and Chinoserie elements. Such terraced residences or shophouses are only between 16 to 18 feet wide, but are often very long. Solid grilles, even if they could get corroded easily, have become a security necessity, although the main gate between the two connecting pillars in front of the unusually short frontage is missing. Redza Piyadasa used silkscreen collage to intervene into time cultures of peoples of various ethnicities and hybrid architecture related to time, and to comment on tradition and change. This is a rare masterpiece, with brilliant colour-matching. Redza Piyadasa burst into the scene when he won the Major Prize in the Malaysian Landscape 1974, and in 1979, he was joint winner of the Minor Award with Lee Kian Seng in Salon Malaysia. His major international award was the Prince Claus Award in 1998, and in 1987 he won the Australian Cultural Award and 1992 the Japan Foudation Travel Award. He was artist-in-residence at Canberra Institute of the Arts in 1991. Piyadasa was also a co-founder of the Five Arts Centre in 1983. In 2001, the National Art Gallery KL accorded him a Retrospective. He received his MFA at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu in 1977 after studying at Hornsey (1967).