In 2006 we led a competition winning team to design the 54 hectares of Bay South, Gardens by the Bay in Singapore. Since completion in 2012, the gardens have become a global phenomenon and attract over 12 million visitors a year to experience the unique indoor and outdoor horticultural attractions.
The masterplan is inspired by the orchid, the national flower of Singapore, and expresses the beauty of the orchid flowers through the exotic gardens and the physiology of the orchid through the sophisticated infrastructure for managing energy, water and waste.
18 distinctive Supertrees and 2 cooled Conservatories provide futuristic landmarks and have been instrumental in shaping Singapore’s identity as a ‘City in a Garden’. At night the gardens transform into a popular meeting place to take in the spectacular sound and light show at the Supertree Grove. The Flower Dome provides an indoor environment for plants from the Mediterranean climate and the Cloud Forest is home to endangered species from tropical montane cloud forest.
In addition to spaces for Singaporeans and tourists, the gardens are home to an increasing biodiversity including many birds, dragonflies, insects and the charismatic Smooth coated otters.
Bay South has featured in many movies and TV programmes, not least in BBC’s Planet Earth 2 series when Sir David Attenborough described it as “perhaps the most spectacular example of city greening”.
Project Detail
Site Area: 54 Hectares
Client: National Parks Board, Singapore
Architect: Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Engineer: Atelier One, Atelier Ten
Quantity Surveyor: Davis Langdon & Seah
In 2006 we led a competition winning team to design the 54 hectares of Bay South, Gardens by the Bay in Singapore. Since completion in 2012, the gardens have become a global phenomenon and attract over 12 million visitors a year to experience the unique indoor and outdoor horticultural attractions.
The masterplan is inspired by the orchid, the national flower of Singapore, and expresses the beauty of the orchid flowers through the exotic gardens and the physiology of the orchid through the sophisticated infrastructure for managing energy, water and waste.
18 distinctive Supertrees and 2 cooled Conservatories provide futuristic landmarks and have been instrumental in shaping Singapore’s identity as a ‘City in a Garden’. At night the gardens transform into a popular meeting place to take in the spectacular sound and light show at the Supertree Grove. The Flower Dome provides an indoor environment for plants from the Mediterranean climate and the Cloud Forest is home to endangered species from tropical montane cloud forest.
In addition to spaces for Singaporeans and tourists, the gardens are home to an increasing biodiversity including many birds, dragonflies, insects and the charismatic Smooth coated otters.
Bay South has featured in many movies and TV programmes, not least in BBC’s Planet Earth 2 series when Sir David Attenborough described it as “perhaps the most spectacular example of city greening”.
Project Detail
Site Area: 54 Hectares
Client: National Parks Board, Singapore
Architect: Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Engineer: Atelier One, Atelier Ten
Quantity Surveyor: Davis Langdon & Seah
In 2006 we led a competition winning team to design the 54 hectares of Bay South, Gardens by the Bay in Singapore. Since completion in 2012, the gardens have become a global phenomenon and attract over 12 million visitors a year to experience the unique indoor and outdoor horticultural attractions.
The masterplan is inspired by the orchid, the national flower of Singapore, and expresses the beauty of the orchid flowers through the exotic gardens and the physiology of the orchid through the sophisticated infrastructure for managing energy, water and waste.
18 distinctive Supertrees and 2 cooled Conservatories provide futuristic landmarks and have been instrumental in shaping Singapore’s identity as a ‘City in a Garden’. At night the gardens transform into a popular meeting place to take in the spectacular sound and light show at the Supertree Grove. The Flower Dome provides an indoor environment for plants from the Mediterranean climate and the Cloud Forest is home to endangered species from tropical montane cloud forest.
In addition to spaces for Singaporeans and tourists, the gardens are home to an increasing biodiversity including many birds, dragonflies, insects and the charismatic Smooth coated otters.
Bay South has featured in many movies and TV programmes, not least in BBC’s Planet Earth 2 series when Sir David Attenborough described it as “perhaps the most spectacular example of city greening”.
Project Detail
Site Area: 54 Hectares
Client: National Parks Board, Singapore
Architect: Wilkinson Eyre Architects
Engineer: Atelier One, Atelier Ten
Quantity Surveyor: Davis Langdon & Seah
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