Originally posted by dragg:
mai gong lah.
only foreign talents can do it.
Already the Master Plan Concept for two out of the proposed
three gardens are being awarded to Foreign Talents :
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FT No 1
The Garden at Marina South, behind where the Marina Bay Integrated
Resort is located, will be developed by England-based landscape architecture
firm Grant Associates.
FT No 2
Across the harbour, offering a more serene, contemplative
experience will be the Garden at Marina East. Its masterplan is
awarded to world-renowned Paris-based landscape designer Gustafson
Porter.
Two landscape designers from the northern cooler temperate regions
will be designing gardens in an equatorial environment such as
Singapore - Brilliant Decision from our Elite Leadership.
What happened to the millions of dollars spent on the training of
local Singaporeans in the specialist areas of Horticulture,
Building and Landscaping Architectures ? What happened to the
experts at our National Parks ?
Will it not be a subject of local pride, when a local garden design
can match the best of any gardens in the World, instead of having
'foreigners' designing our own gardens ?
Holland has its famous Keukenhof Gardens
famed for its abundantly colorful tulips in dramatically landscaped
displays.
Each EU State has its own unique national flower gardens, with
settings that are uniquely local.
Japan has its famed 'Cherry
Blosson Gardens', and so has Australia and New
Zealand.
As to be expected with landscape architects from 'temperate climates', we are to expect
already exotic designs for the Singapore 'Gardens by the Bay
based on the stretched imaginations of Caucasians of 'Life in the Equatorial Zone'.
It seems that in the Garden at Marina South - to match the unique
towering altar-like IR design - the proposal is for " iconic 'Super Trees' structures, the Garden
will wow visitors, especially the young and energetic, with its
vibrancy and colourful blooms. " and with " the centrepiece will be two huge
'cooled conservatories', sitting on some 2.5 hectares of
land on the waterfront ".
A Garden with 'iconic Super
Trees' based on some engineering structures and with
'two huge cooled
conservatories' ?
Has Singapore become so wealthy as to begin to splurge on such
iconic horizontal projects with expenditures that rival the iconic
vertical 'Petronas Towers'
Kuala Lumpur and '101
Tower' of Taipei ?
With expected Hundreds of
Millions to be spent - at each different stage of the
projects - how long will these projects remain before being dug up,
or its large expanse of land being nibbled away for other
economically viable development in the future ?
