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ACM ∼ Singapore
Brasserie Astoria - Beautiful Brasserie at Victoria Concert Hall
Was excited to check out Brasserie Astoria when I first came across it online. Concepted by Frantzén Group who is also the team behind Restaurant Zen, Brasserie Astoria speaks grandeur with flambé trolleys, dessert carts and dark finishing. In short, the restaurant was just beautiful And I thought the location of it at Victoria Concert Hall was just fitting The restaurant was packed but yet…
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Carless in the city
Carless in the city
It wasn’t a typical Sunday morning in Singapore’s Civic District. Freed of cars and the normal motorised traffic, claim to the streets was laid instead by hundreds of cyclists, joggers, walkers and roller-bladers for what was Singapore’s first Car-free Sunday. The first of six car-free Sundays planned for the last Sunday of each month from February, the initiative aims to promote a car-lite…
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Beauty isn't only skin deep
Beauty isn’t only skin deep
There is nothing like the sheer elegance of a well crafted article of leather, especially one that comes from a house that has a long tradition of fine craftsmanship in skins. The house, Hermès, which had its beginnings as a master harness-maker and later as saddlemakers, has just that. Founded in Paris in 1837 by Thierry Hermès, the house has come a long way in the business of creating and…
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Digging the Empress up in search of Singapura
Digging the Empress up in search of Singapura
Just six months or so after the dust seemed to have settled on Empress Place with completion of a four-year long refurbishment of the now almost too clean looking Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall, the dust levels seem to be rising again. A huge hole has appeared in the shadow old Vic, being dug so as to find pieces of our buried past.
The archaeological excavation, the largest ever undertaken…
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Probably the same tree David Marshall stood beside, 2014.