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Telok Blangah Hill Park’s Flying Infrastructure in the Sky

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

flying architecture, high line, singapore, hsbc tree top walk, urban design, green spaces, raised parks, elevated parks, suspensions bridges, elevated pathways

If you enjoyed our coverage of New York City’s High Line raised park, we think Telok Blangah Hill Park’s dizzying infrastructure will “elevate” you to an ever higher level. Located in Singapore, the park’s fly-over style “walkways” are reminiscent of those ancient rope bridges you see suspended over caverns in movies, giving you the very rare experience of viewing towering treetops from a monkey’s perspective. The pathways and suspension bridges are anything but rickety though. In fact, many of them are elegant works of art and architectural precision. But at 120 feet above the forest floor at their highest points, they aren’t for the faint of heart!



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