Singapore’s Latest Patch Of Green: Gardens By The Bay
Gardens by the Bay is Singapore’s newest addition to the city’s urban development plan for the future. Landscape architecture firm Grant Associates/Gustafson Porter won the international design competition organized by the country’s National Parks Board. The goal: create gardens across 101 hectares of real estate by the water.
Grant Associates will design Bay South, the largest garden at 54 hectares complete with a Conservatory Complex; providing a cool moist biome and cool dry biome. These vertical gardens will incorporate a mixture of tropical flowering, ferns and canopies that will light up with projected media at night. Bay East will be smaller at 32 hectares including cascading water garden terraces, a Boat House Piazza and an education centre.
Bay South is scheduled to open in 2011. The targeted date for the completion of Bay East has yet to be confirmed.
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