Gardens by the Bay
Singapore
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”.
Awards
- IFLA Lighting and Night Experience
- Outstanding Award
- IFLA Parks and Open Space
- Outstanding Award
- IFLA Cultural and Urban Landscape
- Award of Excellence
- LIAS Playground_Far East Organization Children’s Garden
- Best of Category Winner
- MIPIM Awards – Recognition of Excellence
- Special Jury Award Winner
- President’s Design Award Singapore
- Design of the Year
- Landscape Institute Awards
- College of Fellows Award for Climate Change Adaptation
- Sustain Magazine Awards
- International Prize: Project of the Year Award
- British Expertise Awards 2013 Winner
- Best International Design Project
- Landscape Institute Awards
- Best Large Scale Public Development
- Structural Awards
- Arts/Entertainment Structures Category
- WAN Landscape Award
- Inaugural Landscape Award
- Skyrise Greenery Awards 2013
- Special Award: Skyrise Greenery in a Garden
- RIBA Lubetkin Prize
- Best New International Building
- Singapore Tourism Award for the Breakthrough Experience for a New Attraction
- Winner
- Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Awards 2013
- The International Architecture Award
- The RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence
- Excellence in Planning and Design for the Public Realm Shortlisted
- World Building of the Year (Conservatories) at the World Architecture Festival
- Winner
- Structural Engineers - Singapore Structural Awards
- Commendation Award for Special Structure: Supertrees and Aerial Walkway
- Structural Engineers - Singapore Structural Awards
- Award for Special Structure: Cooled Conservatories
- BCA Green Mark Platinum
- Winner
- BCA Design and Engineering Excellence
- Winner
- Design for Asia
- Grand Award
- Design for Asia
- Special Award for Technology
- MIPIM Architectural Review Future Projects Awards: Regeneration & Masterplanning
- Commended
Project Info
- Site Area:
- 54 Hectares
- Client:
- National Parks Board, Singapore
- Architect:
- Wilkinson Eyre Architects
- Engineer:
- Atelier One, Atelier Ten
- Quantity Surveyor:
- Davis Langdon & Seah