Chat With Haute Residence Leaders, Episode 7: Vasco Borges
Haute Residence continued its “Chat with Haute Residence Leaders” series with an exclusive one on one conversation featuring Vasco Borges: CEO of luxury private villa resort Beach Enclave.
Crazy Rich Living In Singapore
Crazy Rich Asians is this summer’s biggest box office hit. The rom-com has grossed over $86 million worldwide, receiving rave reviews from movie goers and critics alike. A sequel is currently underway. Who plays the starring role in the movie? None other than the city-state of Singapore. From the global hub’s upscale real estate to the trove of luxury lifestyle offerings, Singapore’s dazzling opulence […]
The Gardens By the Bay Win Title of World’s Best Building
The Gardens By the Bay has been awarded the World Building of the Year prize at the World Architecture Festival. What could best be described as a compound with natural buildings, the project took a revolutionary approach in incorporating a tropical garden filled with tree-shaped towers, two shell-shaped climate-controlled greenhouse and a man-made waterfall. The 100-hectare development, comprising three […]
Singapore’s “Shoe Box” Homes
The housing market of Singapore is filled with small housing units–also known as “shoebox units”–that are 500 square feet or less and housing six people. According to Singapore’s Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), at the end of the 2011 year there were 2,400 shoebox units in the city-state and it estimates that by the end of 2015, […]
New York Designing World’s Tallest Ferris Wheel
In an attempt to lure more visitors into Staten Island, government officials in New York have announced that the city plans to build the world’s tallest Ferris wheel. Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced in a press release last week that construction on the project will begin in early 2014, with plans for the attraction to be open […]
