Four wins for our Singapore landscape team
Our Singapore landscape team has received four major recognitions from the Singapore Institute of Landscape Architecture (SILA) and the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA). Bidadari Park, Lone Tree at Jurong Lake Gardens, and Lead Design Landscape Architect Cathy Hang were honoured for work that advances biodiversity, restores ecological systems, and creates meaningful public spaces for communities.
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Regional Director for Landscape, Henning Larsen APAC
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Bidadari Park has won the Gold Award in the Parks and Recreational category from the Singapore Institute of Landscape Architects (SILA), with Lead Design Landscape Architect Cathy Hang named SILA’s Young Landscape Architect of the Year. At the IFLA-APR LA Awards 2025, Lone Tree received the Award of Excellence in the Environmental Art & Sculpture category, and Bidadari Park earned the Outstanding Award in the Parks and Open Space category.
Cathy Hang – Young Landscape Architect of the Year recipient
Based in Singapore, Cathy is a Lead Design Landscape Architect with roots and experience across Singapore and Hong Kong. She is recognized for her contribution to both Bidadari Park and Jurong Lake Gardens and her ability to bring a thoughtful and personal touch to every project.
To read more about Cathy and her work, look here.
“It motivates and excites me to imagine how the future can be shaped over time, and I'm grateful to be part of something that will have a lasting impact on communities and the environment.”
Lone Tree at Jurong Lake Gardens
Exemplifying Singapore's vision to become a ‘City in Nature’ and informed by an extensive public engagement process, Jurong Lake Gardens restores the site’s original freshwater swamp forest as a means of enhancing climate resilience and biodiversity in the area while also connecting people to the richness of local flora and fauna.
Set within this renewed landscape, Lone Tree is crafted from twisted iron reinforcement bars recycled from the former Jurong Lake. It resembles a living tree and links the old park with the new, symbolizing the community’s evolving relationship with nature.
Bidadari Park
Bidadari is a 13-hectare park is designed to be an accessible, inclusive, recreational space, integrating placemaking and active mobility strategies to support the residents of the local community – humans and animals alike. Carefully planned with active and passive zones, observation decks and pavilions, and over 6 km of trails and activity nodes, the park allows the community to share the space harmoniously with wildlife.
Home to over 193 species, Bidadari Park is an urban refuge for local flora and fauna. With strategic landscaping strategies in place, the park retained 84% of mature trees and added over 170 native plant species, and hosts more than 50% of Singapore’s migratory dryland bird species. Nestled in the heart of the park is Alkaff Lake, a first-of-its-kind 1.8-hectare lake that features a multifunctional drainage infrastructure, capturing and cleansing over 90% of the site’s stormwater through terraced wetlands, swales, marshes, creeks, and a retention pond.
