Kampung Admiralty gets highest accolade for landscape architecture
Featuring a “vertical kampung” design, Kampung Admiralty complex is poised to receive an award for outstanding landscape architecture today, reported The Straits Times.
The 11-storey hub, which integrates residential units with shops, eldercare and childcare centres and medical facilities, also boasts of a combined rooftop community park, rainwater catchment area and edible garden.
The building will receive this year’s Outstanding Award, which is the highest accolade, at the Skyrise Greenery Awards.
Now in its seventh edition, the awards were launched in 2008 by the National Parks Board (NParks) to recognise excellence in landscape architecture within the city-state.
Thirteen other developments are also set to receive Excellence Awards for their excellence in skyrise greenery designs or Special Awards for certain merits like an edible rooftop garden.
Submissions were evaluated based on building types: community facilities, educational institutions, commercial or industrial, small-scale residentials and multi-unit residentials.
Prizes include certificates, plaques and trophies for all the winning developers. However, the Outstanding, Excellence and Special Awards winners will also receive S$8,000, S$1,500 and S$500, respectively.
NParks revealed that their work with various agencies to take on innovative approach towards Singapore’s land scarcity and rapid urban development by building greenery within urban landscapes had set the stage for the biennial awards’ creation.
This year’s awards saw a record submission of 177, up 40 percent from 2015.
The Skyrise Greenery Awards form part of the International Skyrise Greenery Conference, which runs until tomorrow, in conjunction with this year’s international GreenUrbanScape Asia (Gusa) conference.
Held until Sunday at the Singapore Expo, Gusa features exhibitions on the latest greenery projects, urban methods and technology.
This article was edited by Keshia Faculin.
