Singapore, for sustainability concerned urbanites (read: sustainites), has always been a Xanadu (all bubble gum-related, bamboo flogging aside) .  Its 3-Dimensional garden city layout and decades long commitment to greening their city-state has been a model for other urban cores around the world.  It has now undertaken Gardens by the Bay an internationally significant, orchid-inspired, pleasure dome that is not only a marina complex, and business and cultural venue but a model of highly technical integrated ecological…

Singapore, for sustainability concerned urbanites (read: sustainites), has always been a Xanadu (all bubble gum-related, bamboo flogging aside) .  Its 3-Dimensional garden city layout and decades long commitment to greening their city-state has been a model for other urban cores around the world.  It has now undertaken Gardens by the Bay an internationally significant, orchid-inspired, pleasure dome that is not only a marina complex, and business and cultural venue but a model of highly technical integrated ecological…