Suspended high in the soaring atrium of a shopping mall, AIRZONE bills itself as the world first indoor net playground set within the void of a mall, a giddy network of bouncy nets, slides and play zones strung between the upper floors of City Square Mall in Singapore. The concept is as simple as it is novel, for instead of building a playground on the ground, the designers have stretched strong, springy nets across the open central space of the mall, allowing children and adults alike to walk, .....

At the heart of the historic Malay-Muslim quarter known as Kampong Glam, Arab Street is a vibrant thoroughfare whose shophouses, textile merchants and the great golden dome of a nearby mosque conjure the atmosphere of a Middle Eastern bazaar in the middle of Singapore. The street takes its name from the Arab traders who settled in the area in the early nineteenth century, when this district was set aside for the Malay community and for Muslim merchants from across the region and beyond, and it g.....

Shaped like a great white lotus blossom rising from the waters of Marina Bay, the ArtScience Museum is among the most architecturally striking buildings in Singapore, its ten upturned petals housing a museum devoted, as its name suggests, to the meeting point of art, science, culture and technology. Designed by the celebrated architect Moshe Safdie as part of the vast Marina Bay Sands development and opened in 2011, the building is itself a work of art, its sculptural form gathering rainwater t.....

Devoted to the rich and varied cultures of Asia, the Asian Civilisations Museum occupies a stately colonial-era building beside the Singapore River, its collections tracing the artistic, religious and material heritage of the continent from which the great majority of Singaporeans trace their roots. Housed in the grand Empress Place Building, a handsome neoclassical structure that once served as government offices, the museum was established to explore the ancestral cultures of the diverse peopl.....

Rising in tiers of deep red and gold above the streets of Chinatown, the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum is one of the most visited religious sites in Singapore, a richly decorated temple built to house what is venerated as a sacred tooth of the Buddha. Opened in 2007 on the site of an old market lane, the temple was the vision of its founding abbot, who set out to create a home worthy of the precious relic and a centre of Buddhist culture in the heart of the city, raising the enormous cos.....

Behind its serene Gothic chapel and graceful colonnaded walks, CHIJMES is a beautifully restored complex of nineteenth-century convent buildings that has been reborn as one of the most atmospheric dining and entertainment destinations in central Singapore. The name preserves the memory of the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus, the Catholic order whose nuns ran a school and orphanage on this site for well over a century, and the abbreviation is pronounced like the chimes of a bell, a fitting echo .....

Strung along a bend in the Singapore River, Clarke Quay is a historic stretch of riverside warehouses and shophouses that has been transformed into one of the liveliest dining and nightlife quarters in the city, its restored facades glowing with colour after dark. The quay takes its name from an early colonial governor and was once the commercial heart of the river trade, its godowns and warehouses crammed with the spices, rubber and goods that flowed through the bustling port, loaded and unload.....

Gliding along the historic waters of the Singapore River and out into the great expanse of Marina Bay, the Clarke Quay river cruise offers visitors a relaxed and scenic way to take in some of the most famous sights of the city from the water. The cruises are operated aboard bumboats, the sturdy wooden vessels that once carried cargo up and down the river in the days when it was the lifeblood of the colonial port, now lovingly preserved and refitted to carry sightseers instead of spices and rubbe.....

Step through the doors of the Cloud Forest at Gardens by the Bay and the tropical heat gives way to cool, misty air and the roar of one of the tallest indoor waterfalls in the world, cascading down a mountain swathed in greenery. This vast glass conservatory, opened in 2012 as one of the twin cooled domes that anchor the celebrated waterfront gardens, recreates the conditions of a tropical highland, the cool, humid and perpetually cloudy environment found on mountains far above sea level, comple.....

One of the oldest parks in Singapore, Esplanade Park is a graceful strip of greenery running along the waterfront in the historic civic district, its shaded avenues, monuments and old trees offering a tranquil link between the colonial heart of the city and the modern bustle of the bay. Laid out in the latter part of the nineteenth century along what was then the seafront, before land reclamation pushed the shoreline further out, the park was for generations a fashionable promenade where colonia.....