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Subscribe to RSSAccording to AP, Singapore's "Supertrees" are environmentally sustainable vertical gardens displaying tropical flowering climbers, ferns and epiphytes. Ranging from 25 to 50 meters in height, the construction of the trees is part of a government effort to make the city center greener.
Wong Maye-E / AP
People are dwarfed by a clump of "Supertrees" seen against the financial skyline of Singapore on June 29.
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I would love to see some of this going on in major cities in the USA.
Yes, tear down some of the old, boarded up, rotting warehouses and projects and build these! What a great way to beautify a city while going green!
this is ok for the city but it is sort of counter active, they rip out natural plants and roll over habitats in order to build 'sustainable' cement trees for vines. Why not just leave it alone as nature made it and make it a natural park instead?
Personally i believe this could very well attract the interest of people more so than a mildy adapted environment/park. A great part of engineering went into the construction of these tree's to do more than hold plants and look nice, infact they are going to help cool the city (saves on over-all power per person), collect water, and generate solar power. It looks so sick not to mention. Perhaps the over-all maintaince to keep such an investment clean and working will give way to more jobs for the region. I think this was a huge success and hopefully we see more projects like this around the world!
I have mixed feelings on this one, on one hand I agree with Randi, but on the other hand This is an amazing feet and I would love to see some of the gettoistic neighborhoods and old rundown broken out windowed boarded up door rat and other vermin infested buildings in my state torn down and repurposed into something beautiful that in the future may inspire something other than a spraypainted low-classed Ganger Tag or methlab..