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VivoCity (Chinese: 怡丰城) is the largest shopping mall in Singapore. Located in the HarbourFront precinct, it was designed by the Japanese architect Toyo Ito. Its name is derived from the word vivacity. According to Mapletree chairman Edmund Cheng, VivoCity "evokes a lifestyle experience that is modern, stimulating and accessible to everyone, a place bubbling with energy and flowing with vitality"
VivoCity was built on the site of the exhibition halls of the former World Trade Centre, now the HarbourFront Centre. It has 1,500,000 square feet (140,000 m2) of gross floor area and 1,040,000 square feet (97,000 m2) of retail space, larger than Suntec City and Ngee Ann City (the former of which was the largest before VivoCity's opening). It was designed by the renowned Japanese architect Toyo Ito. Mapletree Investments, a subsidiary of Temasek Holdings, is the developer of the S$417 million complex.
VivoCity's iconic architecture sets it apart from the traditional box format of many existing (and upcoming) retail developments in the region as it includes event spaces, al fresco dining by the 300 m long Promenade and a large roof-top amphitheatre. The Sky Park has been a popular place for all walks of life since its opening. The Play Court and the open spaces in the mall are popular with families and children. The Promenade and the entrance area with the water features a popular place for children to play in. The wading pool on the third floor is where many children play at besides the Play Court downstairs. The Sky Park has an Amphitheatre and was where the grand opening was held. It is also a place popular to view Sentosa. Some hold picnics in the mall's outdoor space as well. VivoCity's design allows it to accommodate over 300 tenants, including many new-to-market brands and retail concepts.[3]
The mall has Singapore's largest cinema multiplex with 15 screens and 2,172 seats by the cinematic company Golden Village, along with one of the largest cinema screens in Asia. Companies such as Toys "R" Us and Dairy Farm have their flagship outlets in VivoCity. Dairy Farm, which owns Cold Storage, Shop N Save, Giant Hypermarket, 7-Eleven and Guardian Health & Beauty takes up 3,700 square metres (1 acre) of space on Basement 2 and about 7,400 square metres on Level 1. The new hypermart, called VivoMart, is connected by its own travelator and sells gourmet food from all over the world, including the United States, Germany, Japan and Australia. The hypermarket Giant is on both basement two and level one while Cold Storage and Guardian pharmacy are on level one.
There are two giant food courts — a 2,200 square metre Kopitiam Group facility in Basement 2 and another spread over 2,500 square metres run by the BreadTalk Group, which is a Food Republic food court in similar concept at its sister food court at Wisma Atria.[4]
If u are wondering what are the white spots among the clouds. They are the cable car moving across the island. An iconic attraction in itself, the Singapore Cable Car presents bird's eye view of Singapore's city skyline, the harbour, and Sentosa. Photo opportunities are abundant with the cabin’s 360° panoramic windows - making it the best ride with the best view to Sentosa. The new cabins have also been enhanced to offer guests a World-leading experience in terms of comfort, design and technology.
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A Black-crowned Night Heron in a maple tree.
The Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax), commonly abbreviated to just Night Heron in Eurasia, is a medium-sized heron found throughout a large part of the world, except in the coldest regions and Australasia (where replaced by the closely related Rufous Night Heron, with which it has hybridized in the area of contact).
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Several years ago when I got my first digital camera, I took pictures of these little clumps on the limbs of my maple tree out front... To my surprise, when I looked at them on the computer, I found they were flowers and when the flowers are spent they have developed those little propeller type seeds.. Some may know them as keys... I always need to have the gutters cleaned after the leaves start coming on because the seed are everywhere.. It is truly amazing what you can see with the macro and on a computer where you can enlarge and really see what you cannot see with the naked eye...
Breath
by J. Daniel Beaudry
Tree, gather up my thoughts
like the clouds in your branches.
Draw up my soul
like the waters in your root.
In the arteries of your trunk
bring me together.
Through your leaves
breathe out the sky.
(This looks especially nice on black)
We woke up this morning to a light dusting of snow. Minus 2 C and the colour still holding on the trees.
I couldn't resist getting this shot! This cloud dragon reminded me of the movie "The Never Ending Story". The maple trees made for a colorful anchor point .
With a spring snow on our backyard the sky matched the ground and that meant "take blurry tree pics."
Here are more maple leaves captured during the autumn season in the Maine Highlands. Please also visit: www.acadiamagic.com/.
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The huge grove of all manner of Maple trees have come alive with fall color at last. It's a beautiful sight.
Smoke Tree Flame is a stunning medium sized shrub. The rounded foliage of mid green is highlighted by feathery plumes of silvery white in summer. This spectacular deciduous shrub changes into glowing tones of red and orange as Autumn approaches.
Wandiligong is a town in north-eastern Victoria in the alpine region around 330 kilometres from Melbourne. Established in the 1850s as part of the Victorian Gold Rush, Wandiligong became a hub for many gold miners, including a large Chinese community. At its peak, the town was home to over two thousand inhabitants and boasted shops, churches, a public library, halls and even an hotel. Much has changed since those heady days of the gold rush, and the picturesque town nestled in a valley and built around the Morses Creek, is now a sleepy little town full of picturesque houses which are often let to visitors to the area. The whole town is registered with the National Trust of Australia for its historic landscape and buildings of historic value.
All Saints' Episcopal Church, completed in 1920 was designed by noted architect Ralph Adams Cram in the Colonial Revival and Gothic Revival styles. Peterborough is in the heart of the Monadnock Region of southwestern New Hampshire. Print Size 10x19 inches.
Japanese Maple glowing in evening light.
I used the dripsplat Creative Aperture Disk for this lensbaby shot. So far I have been having trouble getting good results with these disks but I like this. In reading the "how to use" information I see that it says "this effect is most noticeable when the specular highlights are in contrast with a darker background i.e. the sun shining through leaves." Well I should have read that a few months ago. You know what they say, when all else fails read the instructions.
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