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    Green Spaces for Sustainable Cities, Citygreen Issue 6
    Green Spaces for Sustainable Cities, Citygreen Issue 6
    Green Spaces for Sustainable Cities, Citygreen Issue 6
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    Green Spaces for Sustainable Cities, Citygreen Issue 6

    By Centre for Urban Greenery & Ecology, Singapore The Editorial Team

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    CITYGREEN, winner of the APEX Awards for Publication Excellence for three consecutive years - 2014, 2013 and 2012, is a biannual publication of the Centre for Urban Greenery & Ecology, Singapore. It presents current research on greening and ecology of the urban environment, and features outstanding green projects in international cities. This issue of CITYGREEN aims to share insights on the values of nature in cities.

    While Dr. Jason Byrne discusses alternatives to greenspace planning in contrast to the traditional standards approach, Geoff Dyer describes the model SmartCode for achieving walkable, mixed-use urbanism, and Dr. Peter Fisher and D. Trainham illustrate how buildings can be reconnected to the natural world through a “naturising index”.

    The issue also highlights the cities that have been named European Green Capitals by the European Commission in its annual competition to reward and encourage local governments that have taken the environment into account in urban planning and management, as well as a number of noteworthy projects with significant sustainability goals, including the international London 2012 Olympic Parklands and Public Realm (cited “Europe’s most significant landscape for 150 years”—to last a generation) and Housing Development Board’s neighbourhood park Greenwood Sanctuary @ Admiralty in Singapore.

    These technical articles are balanced with more personal interviews and essays. Photographer Jonathan Fleming refl ects on his experience of “walking the High Line”, while landscape designer Jane Martin, whose founding work at Plant*SF gained the support of San Francisco City’s mayor to introduce permeable landscaping along its streets, shares her journey and motivation. In an excerpt from Dr. Timothy Beatley’s article in the The Nature of Cities blog, he suggests how thinking about the Nature Pyramid, a tool similar to the Nutrition Pyramid, may help us to better determine the necessary amounts of exposure to nature and outdoor natural environments.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCentre for Urban Greenery & Ecology, Singapore The Editorial Team
    Release dateAug 5, 2014
    ISBN9789810913069
    Green Spaces for Sustainable Cities, Citygreen Issue 6
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    Centre for Urban Greenery & Ecology, Singapore The Editorial Team

    The Research branch of the Centre for Urban Greenery & Ecology, Singapore, engages in multidisciplinary research on the greening and ecology of cities. Through its key research programs on plants, ecology and social studies, it aims to enhance greenery planning, design and management in cities.

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      Green Spaces for Sustainable Cities, Citygreen Issue 6 - Centre for Urban Greenery & Ecology, Singapore The Editorial Team

      World Building of the Year:

      Cooled Conservatories at Gardens by the Bay

      Text by Kenneth Er, Ng Boon Gee, Andy Kwek, and Matthew Potter

      Images by Gardens by the Bay

      The Cooled Conservatories at Gardens by the Bay were awarded the World Building of the Year at the recently concluded World Architecture Festival from October 3 to 5, 2012. Cited by The Straits Times as the Oscars of the architectural world, the World Architecture Festival was an event that brought together over 1,500 international architects to compete and celebrate excellence in architecture.

      The judging of the World Architecture Festival Awards took place during the three-day event, concluding with 37 category winners and three overall winners for World Building of the Year, Future Project of the Year and Landscape of the Year. The innovative displays in the Cooled Conservatories were singled out by the festival’s jury, first topping a shortlist of nine entries in the Display category on the first day, followed by claiming the prestigious World Building of the Year Award, announced on the last day.

      Occupying 101 hectares of prime waterfront land at Marina Bay, Gardens by the Bay comprises three interconnected gardens—Bay South (54 hectares), Bay East (32 hectares), and Bay Central (15 hectares). Situated at the heart of Singapore’s new Downtown, Gardens by the Bay is an integral part of Singapore’s City in a Garden vision, in which the island-state is woven into a floral tapestry and infrastructural development is nestled within a green oasis. The development of Gardens by the Bay currently focuses on Bay South Garden, a major public space within Marina Bay and the centrepiece of a green canvas from which greenery extends and permeates the urban fabric in Marina Bay.

      At the core of Bay South are the two spectacular Cooled Conservatories, including the 1.2-hectare cool dry conservatory, the Flower Dome, and the 0.8-hectare cool moist conservatory, the Cloud Forest. Designed to complement the surrounding commercial and residential developments, Bay South contributes to the planning intention of making the area a vibrant place to live, work, and play in. It also captures the essence of a garden in a downtown setting, providing a horticulture-themed leisure destination that showcases floral displays and celebrates city living.¹

      Design of the Gardens

      From the outset, Bay South was planned to set a new standard in the way gardens are developed and managed. It exemplifies how a multitude of disciplines, ranging from architecture and landscape design to structural and environmental engineering, can be successfully integrated with horticultural know-how and garden artistry.

      The architecture and structural design of the Cooled Conservatories were deeply influenced by the horticultural narrative and environmental strategy—and vice versa. Possibly one of the world’s largest spanning grid-shell structures, their distinctive forms blend into the rich landscape of the garden.

      The interesting shells of the Cooled Conservatories of the Gardens may be spied from across the Marina Bay.

      The composition of the two forms is based on a unique geometry, which maximises light levels in the conservatories for plants to flourish within. These unique and iconic forms allow a whole new world of plants to be sustained in Singapore. Mindful of the impact of climate change, the two conservatories also apply cutting-edge technologies that provide energy-efficient solutions in cooling. They are cooled by energy produced by a tri-generation system that uses horticultural waste as

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