singapore

Long Forgotten Holiday

First trip to Singapore, the highlight for me is the amazing architecture, both contemporary and historical, much of which [unlike Hong Kong] has not been obliterated by developers. My favourite place is the once popular, now somewhat faded, Haw Par villa and the Tiger Balm garden that would certainly not have survived to the present day in Hong Kong. The imaginative use of concrete echoing le Corbusier’s fascination with the versatile and, in his day, cutting edge material providing a pleasure ground created by the Tiger Balm director with the goal of illustrating consequences of debauchery and other such activities resulting in immediate despatch to hell.