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Un air de Singapore.

Once you start to travel a lot, you start to notice similarities between places.

Not only this little restaurant reminded us of home (one of our home for 6 years) but while I was walking downtown I notified this building. It reminded me a bit of Pompidou center in Paris with its inside-out design but it mostly reminded me of a building in Singapore where we took a family photo back in 2018

The Lloyd’s building (sometimes known as the Inside-Out Building) is the home of the insurance institution Lloyd’s of London. The building is a leading example of radical Bowellism architecture in which the services for the building, such as ducts and lifts, are located on the exterior to maximise space in the interior. In 2011, twenty-five years after its completion in 1986 the building received Grade I listing; at this time it was the youngest structure ever to obtain this status. It is said by Historic England to be “universally recognised as one of the key buildings of the modern epoch”. Its innovation of having key service pipes and other components routed outside the walls has led to very expensive maintenance costs due to their exposure to the elements.