Architects design tropical garden

10 July 2012 Last updated at 11:08 ET

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Kenneth Er, chief operating officer of Gardens by the Bay and a forest ecologist, explains what the project seeks to achieve

A team of landscape architects from Bath have helped design part of what are believed to be the world's largest gardens in Singapore.

The workforce from Grant Associates have just completed more than half of the 101-hectare tropical garden.

Director Andrew Grant said its brief had been to make an amazing tropical garden and make it the favourite place for Singaporeans.

The project is part of Singapore's City in a Garden vision.

The scheme is designed to raise the profile of the city.

Mr Grant said a key part of its design is the super tree structure - made out of steel - and the tropical plants which typically live in the rainforest providing a vertical garden.

"These are 25 to 50m-tall (82-164ft) and also do a lot of environmental things.

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