When I decided to pursue landscape architecture as a profession, an attraction to the career was the possibility of travel to interesting and exotic locations. This past week proved to be a good example of how that notion has been unfolding.
On Monday and Tuesday, this boy from suburban Maryland began his work week in Singapore at a senior management retreat held at the Capella Hotel & Resort on Sentosa Island (http://www.capellahotels.com/singapore/). In addition to team building and strategizing about company improvements, the two-day meeting afforded a wonderful opportunity to tour one of our company’s outstanding, past, local projects. I discovered that the project is an artful balance between “star-chitect” Foster + Partners’ renovated colonial British military officer’s mess hall and Belt Collins’ landscape design - which is strongly characterized by sensitive grading of the steeply sloping site and preservation of many existing tropical forest trees.
On Monday and Tuesday, this boy from suburban Maryland began his work week in Singapore at a senior management retreat held at the Capella Hotel & Resort on Sentosa Island (http://www.capellahotels.com/singapore/). In addition to team building and strategizing about company improvements, the two-day meeting afforded a wonderful opportunity to tour one of our company’s outstanding, past, local projects. I discovered that the project is an artful balance between “star-chitect” Foster + Partners’ renovated colonial British military officer’s mess hall and Belt Collins’ landscape design - which is strongly characterized by sensitive grading of the steeply sloping site and preservation of many existing tropical forest trees.
On Wednesday and Thursday, it was off to Zhuhai, China (via Hong Kong International Airport and a short ferry boat ride) to present a landscape master plan for an exciting waterfront mixed-use project planned for Weihai in Shandong Province. I stayed at an interesting place - the Zobon Art Hotel (http://www.zobonarthotel.com/) and visited an underground shopping center where you can buy every kind of "knock off" product imaginable.
Friday I was back in Singapore for an end of the day workshop meeting with our architectural partner regarding a ski resort in Central Asia.
How was your week? ;-)
How was your week? ;-)