Jurong Lake Gardens
Lakeside national gardens in western Singapore, blending a restored Chinese garden, a Japanese garden, and sixty hectares of wetland parkland.
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This guide to Jurong Lake Gardens traces the site from waterlogged prawn ponds in industrial 1960s Jurong to a deliberate act of civic ambition: bringing Taiwanese designer Yu Yuen Chen to build a classical Chinese garden, complete with pagoda and thirteen-arch bridge, that opened in 1975. It follows the Japanese Garden that rose alongside it, drawn from Muromachi-period design, and how Finance Minister Hon Sui Sen cut the ribbon on a lakeshore once meant only for industry. Pause on the White Rainbow Bridge, where the pagoda and the lake come into view together.
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