IT IS NOT TOO MUCH of a hyperbole to say that Singapore’s skyline morphs at an astonishing speed. Especially as, quite unexpectedly, the island-state holds the world’s largest collection of architecture by Pritzker Prize laureates and starchitects. Blink and almost overnight, a new building by Thomas Heatherwick, Ole Scheeren, Norman Foster, Moshe Safdie, or Daniel Libeskind has sprung up alongside masterpieces by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Kohn Pedersen Fox, Zaha Hadid, KenzoTange, Kevin Roche, Paul Rudolph, I.M. Pei, and Richard Meier.
But beneath all that 21st-century gloss and tent-pole names, an older, perhaps grander, Singapore still pulses. That built heritage is what makes Singapore such a pleasure for flâneurs, especially in the early morning and late afternoons when the tropical sun is more forgiving.
For some, an ideal walking tour…
