New Zealand has failed to make the cut on Time Magazine's World's Greatest Places list 2018.
On the list of 100 destinations sorted into the this year's top tips for travellers looking to Visit, Stay Eat and Drink, not one was located in Aotearoa.
Of 34 wonders that Time calls this year's "must visit" list includes the remote Senegalese town of Sinthian makes the cut for its Thread multi-use community facility. The village which is "more than seven hours from the nearest major airport in Dakar" is home to architect Toshiko Mori's state of the art cultural centre which was built using local materials and techniques such as mud brick and bamboo.
Denmark gets two places on the list – for the Tivoli pleasure gardens and the helical Experimentarium museum – and china three spots for attractions including Tianjin Binhai Library; a remarkable feat for a country with such a tight grasp on the flow of information, though the magazine admits the building holds "more fiction than books" with a collection made mostly of printed aluminum plates making the place look fuller. While the library intends to grow its collection, 363,000 square foot super-construction currently holds fewer books than Auckland's Central Library. Still the eye-catching design by Dutch architectural firm MVRDV merits a visit on Time Magazine's list.
