LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL DESIGNERS VISIT SINGAPORE

The 21 designers are as follows:

1. Australia (2 designers)

•  Jim Fogarty was the first Australian show garden designer to win a Chelsea award and he holds a     number of Golds from the Melbourne and Sydney Flower Shows. Jim's design “Lush”, unveiled at the     recently concluded Melbourne Flower Show was inspired by Singapore. The “Lush” garden won the Best     of Show, a Gold Medal in the Show Garden category as well as the Royal Horticultural Society of Victoria     Comeadow Award for Outstanding Landscape Design at the Melbourne International Flower & Garden     Show, 2006

•  Jamie Durie runs PATIO Landscape Architecture & Design and has received over 20 garden design     awards both in Australia and internationally. He is also the host of Backyard Blitz and The Block, two of     Australia television's highest-rating garden shows

2. China (1 designer)

•  Huang Feihu has received several Gold awards in China including the China Flowers Exposition in 2003     and 2005

3. France (1 designer)

•   Sibila Jaksic is the art director with Signes, an acclaimed landscape design firm with experience in     environmental, town planning and landscape design. Their award-winning designs include the Thames     Barrier Park in the United Kingdom.

    Jacksic has won top awards in European garden and flower shows.

4. Holland (1 designer)

•  Nico Wissing from Wissing Hoveniers is a pioneer of the Green City concept, advocating greening as    integral to building and urban planning. Nico has won top awards in European garden and flower shows.    Currently Vice President of the European Landscape Contractors Association, Nico focuses on research    and looks into intensifying specialist knowledge and experience for members through international study    trips and courses amongst others.

5. Japan (1 designer)

•  Jun-Ichi Inada has over 28 years of design experience. Mr. Inada received the Design Award at the 2004    Hamamatsu International Flower Show and Garden Festival. He was also recognised by the Japanese    Institute of Landscape Architecture with the Grand Prix Award in 2004.

6. Malaysia (1 designer)

•  Alvin Phang is the Creative Director of Alpine Dynamics. He is a member of the Associate American    Society of Interior Design and was awarded three Golds at the Malaysia International Landscape & Garden    Festival in 2004

7. Philippines (1 designer)

•  A Certified Public Accountant turned garden designer and researcher, Nonito A Dolera has received    several awards at flower and garden shows in the Philippines. He has written several papers on Orchids    and judged at a number of local and international events.

8. Singapore (8 designers)

•  Henry Steed is a landscape architect in a Singapore-based private practice, ICN Design Pte Ltd . He has    been a resident in Singapore for 23 years, working on a wide variety of master-planning and design projects covering almost all aspects of the modern landscape within the built environment. His work has taken him    across the Asian region to the Middle East, from Egypt to China. Henry has served on the Council of    Singapore Institute of Landscape Architects (SILA) for many years and has made periodic inputs to    Government Advisory Panels. Henry is also the winner of the 5 th SILA Design Award Competition

•  Casey Gan is part of Cicada Pte Ltd's team. His projects include the design for the SaigoMax Project in    Vietnam which took a tropical garden setting, with specially created ponds and hills. Cicada's clients include    the Singapore Indoor Stadium, Hong Kong Sky City and Xin Tian Di in Shanghai. Casey is also a winner of    the 5 th SILA (Singapore Institute of Landscape Architects) Design Award Competition.

•  Stephen Caffyn of Stephen Caffyn Landscape Design has over 10 years of international experience    and an expanding portfolio of projects in Singapore such as HDB upgrading for Eunos and Marine Crescent    and a number of upmarket private apartments. Stephen is also a winner of the 5 th SILA (Singapore    Institute of Landscape Architects) Design Award Competition.

•  Sharmen Stave from Sitetectonix Pte Ltd specialises in Landscape Architecture, Urban Design and    Hotel and Resort development. He is an established designer and holds a Master in Landscape Architecture    from Harvard University. Sitetectonix Pte Ltd has won many awards for design excellence, including Gold    Medals from Singapore's Building & Construction Authority (BCA) and the recent SILA Professional Design    Awards 2006.

•  R P Jikky is the Managing Director of Tropical Environment Pte Ltd, and has a keen interest in    preserving nature. One of his recent projects, the Singapore Management University (SMU) saw him putting    back half of the greenery that was present on-site. His creation of a green wall effect using hanging    creepers won the Gold Award at the Landscape Industry Association (Singapore) (LIAS) Awards of    Excellence.

•  Michael Teh from Nature Landscape Pte Ltd made his mark with landscape projects such as the    grounds of top hotels Raffles and Four Seasons, and Changi International Airport. The company also won a    Gold Award at this year's Landscape Industry Association (Singapore) (LIAS) Awards of Excellence.    Michael is also currently the chairman of LIAS.

•  See Cheng Tiong is from Kosin Contracto, an award-winning firm that recently won the Gold Award    in Design and Build - Residential category of this year's Landscape Industry Association (Singapore) (LIAS)    Awards of Excellence with its Gilstead Brooks entry, a cluster housing of upscale terrace houses.

•  Danny Cheok is the Managing Director of Far East Flora Pte Ltd , which won the Gold Award in the    Retail Nursery category of this year's Landscape Industry Association (Singapore) (LIAS) Awards of    Excellence. Its flagship store at Thomson has about 500 types of plants presented according to species,    potted into decorative pots, to showcase how the plants customers buy will appear in a home-setting. The    company also specialises in landscape design.

9. United Kingdom (3 designers)

•  Julian Dowle is an award-winning garden designer with 10 Chelsea Golds who has also judged at the    world's top flower shows including the Chelsea and Melbourne Flower shows.

•  Christopher Bradley-Hole is a landscape architect turned garden designer, who has won three Chelsea    Gold Awards amongst various accolades.

•  Stephen Woodhams was one of the youngest designers to be awarded a Chelsea Gold Award in 1994.    His portfolio of work includes top fashion brands such as Max Mara, six Royal Opera House Galas and the    reopening of the Royal Opera House in London.

10. United States (2 designers)

•  Michael Bruce is an accomplished garden designer who was recently awarded Gold at the Philadelphia    Flower Show 2006.

•  William Troy Taylor started running his family floral and landscape business at the age of 22. Since then,    he has received several accolades from the Philadelphia Flower Show including Best Achievement and    People's Choice Awards for his exhibits.

About Singapore Garden Festival (SGF) 2006

The Singapore Garden Festival is a biennial event, positioned to be amongst the top flower and garden shows on the international calendar. Singapore's geographic location makes the Festival an ideal platform to showcase horticultural and gardening products and services from the northern and southern hemispheres, as well as from Asia and New World nations.

The inaugural Festival will showcase the creations of top international award-winning landscape and garden designers, florists and horticulturists, who are specially invited to the Festival to work alongside Singapore's own talented horticulturists to create displays and activities for Singaporeans.

For more information, please contact Hill and Knowlton
Janice Quah (Mob 9680 7555) or Pamela Tor Das (Mob 9765 2971)

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