SINGAPORE - It could be as simple as laying out stone slabs on the ground to direct people across a garden, or a staircase painted like piano keys to encourage exercise.
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SINGAPORE - The new 280m-tall CapitaSpring at 88 Market Street is set to be one of the tallest - and greenest - buildings in Raffles Place.
Sited at the former Golden Shoe Car Park and slated for completion by December, it will feature a four-storey-high Green Oasis - built to be like a rainforest in the middle of the building, with a jungle gym , cafe and sky hammocks for tenants. At its rooftop, a sky garden will cradle Singapore s loftiest urban farm.
CapitaSpring was envisioned as an integrated mixed-use development, said Harvard-trained Singapore-American architect Brian Yang of Danish firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), who started drawing up plans for the 51-storey building in 2015.
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Former Housing Board chief executive Cheong Koon Hean, 63, will assume the position of chairman of the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities in June.
She will be taking over from Professor Chan Heng Chee, 78, who has led the centre since its establishment in 2012, said SUTD on Monday (Jan 26).
Prof Chan, who is also Ambassador-at-Large with the Foreign Ministry, will continue her research as a professor at the centre.
She is currently chairman of the ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, global co-chair of the Asia Society, and member of the board of trustees of the National University of Singapore.
SUTD president Chong Tow Chong thanked Prof Chan for leading the centre and for her significant contributions in developing the university s human capital.