SINGAPORE GARDEN FESTIVAL

2024 - GOLD AWARD, BEST OF SHOW AND BEST LIGHTING (IMPLEMENTATION)

BETWEEN TWO WORLDS

2024 - GOLD AWARD AND BEST OF SHOW (DESIGN & IMPLEMENTATION)

REJUVENATED ROOTS: REDISCOVERING BOTANICAL BOUNTY

2022 - GOLD AWARD (IMPLEMENTATION)

INNER GROWTH GARDEN

2021 - GOLD AWARD & BEST OF SHOW (IMPLEMENTATION)

CHEERS! TO LIFE!

2018 - GOLD AWARD & best of show

Nature’s Elements (Balcony Garden)

2018 - SILver award

fantasy garden - gREEN TOURBILLION

2016 - gold award

En (Landscape garden)

Tropic Planners & Landscape was honoured to be the implementing partner for Kazuho Inohana & Yousuke Yamaguchi, celebrated designers from Japan.  The competition piece was enhanced by the designer's fusion of styles, skills and impeccable attention to details honed from years of practice.

The design was realised in a relatively small given area, through the creation of pockets of space and featuring different elements at various angles. Tropical plants suited for Singapore's hot and humid climate were used strategically to emulate the feeling of being abroad in the cool calmness of Japan in a sustainable manner.

2014 - Silver Award (Design & Implementation)

HEAVEN ON EARTH (landscape Garden)

Vincent Chia was honoured to be selected by LIAS to represent Singapore in the Landscape Garden category at the Singapore Garden Festival 2014. This enchanting landscape garden demonstrates that dreams are possible. It is a manifestation of the real living world where plants and animals can co-exist in perfect harmony with mankind.

When one walks into this tranquil landscape garden, he or she will be captivated by the view of golden-bronze Star Apple trees, an array of vibrantly coloured shrubs and a water feature against a uniquely designed building. The trees and other star-related plants are a symbolic representation that stars are the bridge between Heaven and Earth. An inverted Fig tree with step-like branches adjacent to the building represents the imaginary stairway to heaven. A corner of Licuala palms and orchids adds biodiversity to the garden.

Mesmerising dream gardens like this makes our little red dot an amazing city in a beautiful garden.

2012 - Gold Award (Implementation)

cONTINENTAL DRIFT (Landscape Garden)

Tropic Planners & Landscape was honoured to be the implementing partner for Sarah Eberle, a renowned landscape designer from the UK. The project, aptly named “Continental Drift” was an exciting visual exhibit that addresses environmental concerns by investigating varying landscapes from around the world.

The layered landscape transits from the dry and exposed arid landscape of the upper roof, to the cool, partially shaded temperate landscape of the middle roof and finally to the humid sub-tropics on the ground level.

2010 - Silver Award (Construction & Implementation)

A WAY FORWARD (Fantasy Garden)

Tropic Planners & Landscape was the Implementation partner for the Canadian designers Robert Boltman & Alex Bartlett. The design acknowledges that even the world’s largest shipping container destination will be shaped by changes and forces beyond its control. Faced with these changes, we have to decide how to adapt to meet the demands of a new reality. A smaller, greener world economy may demand that we find ways to reinvent ourselves.

Old, abandoned, obsolete shipping containers are positioned opposite the newly repurposed container playhouse illustrating the stark contrast of the effects of our decision to remain as we are or change to meet the demands of the future. In the end, regardless of our decision, the beauty of nature shall persist and reclaim anything that we leave behind.