View from the Pinnacle @ Duxton

Enjoying the view from one of the skybridges at HDB’s Pinnacle@Duxton are (from left) Mr Sng Cheng Keh, deputy executive officer (building); Mr Lau Joo Ming, managing director (HDB Building Research Insitute); Associated Professor Koo Tsai Kee, Minister of State for Defence and MP for Tanjong Pagar GRC; National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan; HDB chief executive officer Tay Kim Poh, and Mr Yap Chin Beng, deputy chief executive officer (estates and corporate). — ST PHOTOS: CHEW SENG KIM, ALPHONSUS CHERN

SINGAPORE will be home to possibly the world’s largest sky garden – 500m long and 24m wide and perched up to 50 storeys above ground.

The garden, spread along a network of skybridges, will be on the doorsteps of HDB residents, so to speak, as part of it will sit atop the tallest-ever public housing project here, with another section further down.

National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan yesterday launched the 12th and final skybridge at the 1,848-unit The Pinnacle@Duxton in Cantonment Road. Twelve skybridges link the seven residential blocks at the 26th and 50th storeys, to create a long continuous sky garden on both levels.

The Pinnacle@Duxton is located where the first two HDB blocks in the area were built 50 years ago – an important tribute to the HDB’s 50th anniversary next year, said Mr Mah.

Residents will be able to collect their keys at the end of the year, said Mr Mah.

Source : Straits Times – 3 Sep 2009