Singapore

A tropical garden where public life, plant research and long city memory share the same paths.

A 18-hectare hilltop park in central Singapore that was the seat of colonial government, the site of a Malay sultanate palace and the location of a World War II British military tunnel, now a public garden with preserved fortifications and archaeological exhibits.

A 101-hectare waterfront garden flanking the Marina Bay end of Singapore's Central Business District, centred on two cooled glass conservatories and a grove of eighteen Supertrees, metal-and-plant structures up to 50 metres tall.

Three 57-floor hotel towers capped by a rooftop SkyPark cantilevered over all three, above an integrated casino, retail, dining and museum complex on the waterfront of Singapore's Central Business District.

An open waterfront site at the tip of the Marina Bay promontory where the original Merlion statue — an 8.6-metre half-lion, half-fish creature spouting water into the harbor — has been a shorthand symbol of Singapore since 1972.

A 1,020-hectare island off Singapore's north-eastern coast, Pulau Ubin is one of the last surviving rural landscapes in the city-state, known for its abandoned granite quarries, traditional kampung villages, cycling trails and the Chek Jawa wetlands supporting coral reef, mangrove and tidal flat ecosystems.

A 165-metre observation wheel on the Marina Bay waterfront, whose 28 air-conditioned capsules complete one revolution in approximately 32 minutes, offering panoramic views of the Singapore skyline, harbor and the Singapore Strait.