Located in Marina Bay, Gardens by the Bay was a key project in delivering the Singapore Government’s vision of transforming Singapore into a ‘City in a Garden’. Bay South was the first and largest of three landscaped gardens. At a total of 101 hectares, the Gardens by the Bay project comprised three distinct waterfront gardens – Bay South, Bay East and Bay Central. Located in the heart of Bay South Garden, the Cooled Conservatory Complex provides a spectacular, all-weather attraction, comprising a 1.28 hectare cool dry conservatory (the ‘Flower Dome’) and a 0.73 hectare cool moist conservatory (the ‘Cloud Forest’). Each has its own distinct character, but both explore the horticulture of those environments most likely to be affected by climate change.
In 2012, British architects Wilkinson Eyre and landscape architects Grant Associates completed this enormous tropical garden in Singapore filled with tree-like towers, shell-shaped greenhouses and a 30-metre-high man-made waterfall. Eighteen ‘Supertree‘ structures measuring up to 50 metres in height have thousands of plant species growing up their vein-like cladding. They’re connected by bridges 20 metres up and there’s a bar at the top of the tallest one.
The Supertrees are joining in the festive celebrations and adding to the celebratory atmosphere at Gardens by the Bay with a Spring Edition of the “Garden Rhapsody”. Be entertained by familiar tunes as the towering vertical gardens come to life every evening in a specially choreographed 12-minute music and light show
Lighting up the night sky: Giant man-made ‘Supertrees’ illuminate city as part of huge £350million gardens project to make Singapore ‘botanical capital of the world’. The incredible installation was created as a national landmark as the island looks to create a vast green space in its Marina South district
Garden Rhapsody
Daily Shows
7:45 PM, 8:45 PM, 9:30 PM*
*Only on Fri, Sat, Eve of Public Holidays and Public Holidays
photograph is by Robert Such
