There are aesthetic gardens where you live – if you know where to find them! Our public housing designs are getting prettier, and so are their gardens. We found 7 sprawling rich HDB gardens where you can immerse yourself and get lost amongst the greenery.
1. SkyTerrace@Dawson
Move over, Pinnacle@Duxton. There’s a newer green space that people can now admire and enjoy within the area. The modern and sleek apartments at SkyTerrace@Duxton are designed to bring to life the idea of housing in a park, and it overflows with greenness. It boasts an award-winning ecologically self-sufficient design – overhanging gardens, replanted trees and shrubbery, and rooftop irrigation tanks. The future of Singapore’s HDB landscapes are looking lush!
Don’t you feel quite green with envy for that living space?
2. Punggol Breeze Garden Terrace
You thought Punggol was famous for its boardwalk, but Punggol is also famous for their green expanse of gardens and breathtaking HDBs. Punggol Breeze won the Excellence Award in the Skyrise Greenery Awards 2013 organised by NParks, shining among other strong contenders like PARKROYAL on Pickering and Ocean Financial Centre. The roof garden stretches across 270 metres atop the multi-storey car park, and is the longest rooftop garden in Punggol with various children’s playgrounds, fitness corners, and resting shelters for informal gatherings.
3. Waterway Terraces (and Punggol, in general)
Have you seen other Punggol HDBs like Punggol BayView, Waterway Woodcress, and Waterway Terraces? They’re completely redefining the classic Singaporean HDB look.
Waterway Terraces won the Singapore Landscape Architecture Gold Award under the Residential Category in 2017 for its integrative design elements. Besides enhancing connectivity and natural ventilation with its open corridors, it naturally brings down the urban heat with diverse plant choices, light penetration and passive climatic control features. It paves the way for our 21st century demands of a sustainable, yet enjoyable, high-density urban living – in style.
As if it couldn’t get better, check out the aerial view!
There must be something different in the Punggol waters.
4. Dover Crescent
However stunning the earlier homes look, humble herb gardens like Dover Crescent’s remind us that HDBs can be impressive without formal awards.
We’re awed by how the Dover Crescent community garden keeps growing strong! Their dedicated herb garden and the residential committee that takes loving care of it is such a heartwarming sight. Rich in scents and healing properties – it must be the magic of gardening that brings the Dover Crescent community together.
5. The Pinnacle @ Duxton
This list isn’t complete with the Skygarden at The Pinnacle @ Duxton (even as it faces some friendly competition from SkyTerrace@Dawson). Standing proud as the tallest HDB in Singapore, it has a skybridge on the 50th floor and an enviable garden landscape. Did you know that both skybridges at the 26th and 50th levels boast a 500-metre-long sky garden?
6. Kampung Admiralty
Sitting right next to Admiralty MRT, Kampung Admiralty is the first of its kind: a “retirement kampung” self-contained community. It houses a hawker centre, rooftop vegetable and community gardens, an active-ageing hub, Admiralty Medical Centre, and a childcare centre alongside its two HDB blocks. Whoa.
You could never tell from the aerial view of this 0.9Ha compound.
As they say, don’t judge a block by its canopy cover!
7. Tampines GreenRidges
The views just keep getting better. Growing into the larger urban concept of “the Green Tapestry” of Tampines Town, Tampines GreenRidges has 110 plant species and links across Boulevard Park to Tampines North. Tampines is the third largest residential town in Singapore and GreenRidges accommodates over a thousand households – truly living up to “living in a leafy environment”!
You Better Be-leaf These HDB Gardens Exist
And they’re blooming ever so brightly, too. As Singapore moves closer towards our goal of becoming the world’s greenest city, perhaps you can start too by learning how to grow your own microgreens to eat organically at home!
