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JANUARY 2013
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PARIS: A CULTURAL
REAWAKENING
While there’s always
a lot to see, do and eat
in Paris, culture vultures
have long missed out on
two significant points of
interest, due to renovation
and remodeling. By the
time the National Picasso
Museum reopens its doors
this summer, it will have
been closed for almost two
years. The exhibition space
has been vastly improved,
allowing for more than 500
of Pablo Picasso’s works to
be displayed throughout the
building’s four levels. Just a
few months later, Paris will
see the return of the Musée
Galliera, formally known as
the Musée de la Mode de la
Ville de Paris (Museum of
Fashion in the City of Paris).
In the four years since the
museum’s remodeling
began, its embarrassment of
fashion-related riches have
been scattered across the
City of Light and beyond.
Fashion aficionados will
rejoice that the artifacts
are coming back to their
beautiful home in the 16th
Arrondissement.
SINGAPORE: GARDEN PARTY
If Dr. Seuss, Willy Wonka, Steve Jobs and Cirque du Soleil were
given 250 acres of reclaimed land on Singapore’s waterfront and
tasked with building an urban park of the future, their creation
might look quite a bit like Gardens by the Bay. The colossal and
otherworldly project—whose climate-controlled conservatories
won the 2012 World Building of the Year Award—boasts all manner
of wonderments: 100-foot waterfalls, carnivorous plants, a cloud
forest and a grove of “supertrees,” enormous vertical gardens that
provide a shady canopy by day and come alive with music and
lights by night. There are also myriad dining spots in the park,
including IndoChine, a bistro that sits atop a 164-foot supertree.
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