Singapore-based WOHA Architects designed PARKROYAL on Pickering as a hotel-as-garden that actually doubled the green-growing potential of its site. It is located on the western edge of the central business district, between Hong Lim Park and the HDB apartment blocks of Chinatown. It combinates garden spaces with an iterresting structure. The 367-room hotel was developed at a cost of S$350 million and four years.

Architects: WOHA
Location: Singapore, Singapore
Area: 29,811 sqm
Year: 2013
Location: Singapore
Client: Parkroyal Hotels & Resorts
Photographs: Patrick Bingham-Hall

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Cockington Green is only 15 minutes from Canberra’s centre. Park is located in Nicholls, Australian Capital Territory, opened to the public in 1979. Cockington Green is one of Canberra’s landmark attractions. Adults and children alike will be charmed by the little miniatures, fun figures and a high area to look down on a maze.

Opening times:
Entry from 9.30am – Last Entry time 4.15pm with viewing available until 5.00pm
Open 7 days (Closed Christmas Day & Boxing Day)

Admission fees:
Adults: $18.50
Seniors (60years & over): $13.50
Children (4-16 years): $10.50
Family (2 adults & up to 3 children): $52.00
Miniature Steam Train Rides: $3.00

Stonehenge

India’s Red Fort

Tenochtitlan’s Aztec Temple, Mexico

Soccer game

The streaker is escorted from the soccer field

Braemar Castle from Scotland

Treasury Building, Petra, Jordan

Crofters Cottage on English farm

Town scene (Peterborough Housing Estate)

Farm scene – The Oast House

Intercity 125 High Speed Express train

Central Deborah gold mine, Bendigo

Country manor with tennis court

The train passes Turkey’s Leander’s Tower

St Andrew’s Church, Ukraine

Carelessness at the lock

Sunken barge

Reading the newspaper on the loo

Snowy Mountains hut

Cockington Green Miniature Village – church

Philippines Torogan

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This fantastic krypton green color became signature color for Lotus Elise. Lotus with this color is a eye catcher. Lotus is a two seat, rear-wheel drive, mid-engined roadster released in September 1996 by the English manufacturer Lotus Cars. The Elise only carried a 1.6-liter 4-cylinder behind the cockpit. That plus a six-speed shifter was enoughto get the car from a standstill to 60 mph in 6 seconds.

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The magnificent structure that was designed as a home for George Washington Vanderbilt, his loving and capable wife Edith, and their young daughter Cornelia. Gilded Age architect Richard Morris Hunt designed the Biltmore Estate at the end of 19th century. Constructed in the style of a French Renaissance chateau, the Biltmore has 255 rooms, 65 fireplaces, an indoor pool, bowling alley at 175,000 square feet (16,300 square meters). You can discover large home, magnificent gardens, award-winning winery, great shopping and delicious dining.

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Once upon a time in the middle of winter, when the flakes of snow were falling like feathers from the sky, a queen sat at a window sewing, and the frame of the window was made of black ebony. And whilst she was sewing and looking out of the window at the snow, she pricked her finger with the needle, and three drops of blood fell upon the snow. And the red looked pretty upon the white snow, and she thought to herself, would that I had a child as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as the wood of the window-frame. Soon after that she had a little daughter, who was as white as snow, and as red as blood, and her hair was as black as ebony, and she was therefore called little Snow White. And when the child was born, the queen died…

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