Studio project · Vertical-garden residential · Singapore
Canopy One
A 55-storey vertical-garden tower on Marina Bay — a rounded white shaft banded with double-height sky terraces overflowing with real tropical planting, crowned by a rooftop forest around a pool.
Overview
Green bands up a white shaft, and the monsoon as the lighting designer.
Every sixth floor of Canopy One is a communal garden open to the air — rain trees, frangipani, vegetable beds, a swing hung from a branch. The set lives there: residents gardening on the 24th floor, a birthday sheltering from a downpour under the pavilion, tai chi on the rooftop, lanterns at dusk.
Location
Singapore
Site
Marina Bay, Singapore
Height
630 ft · 55 storeys
Programme
Residential tower · double-height planted sky terraces every sixth floor · rooftop forest and pool
Residences
260 residences · 9 sky terraces
Type
Vertical-garden residential
Scope
22 stills · process set
Stage
Pre-launch visualisation package · 2026
01 / The brief
Make the gardens real
Green towers fail in renders because the plants look plastic. Every planting frame had to read as photographed vegetation — mixed ages, browning tips, wet soil — and the light had to be Singapore's: humid, rain-washed, monsoon clouds building.
How it was made
From plan to photograph.
Typical residential floor plan.
Elevation and section · the massing model in its city context.
The clay camera study, and the same view finished.
Material board and design references on the studio desk.
02 / The approach
Plants photographed, not modelled
Vegetation is written into every prompt as real, imperfect plants; weather runs from clear dawn to a full monsoon downpour. Interiors are light teak, warm terrazzo, rattan and cane, with the city blurred by rain on the glass.
The tower
On the skyline.
Exteriors — aerial, arrival, blue hour, facade.
Exteriors — aerial, arrival, blue hour, facade.
Exteriors — aerial, arrival, blue hour, facade.
Amenities & residences
Life inside.
Amenities, residences and the people who'd live there.
Amenities, residences and the people who'd live there.
Amenities, residences and the people who'd live there.
Amenities, residences and the people who'd live there.
Amenities, residences and the people who'd live there.
The plants had to look photographed, not modelled.
03 / The set
The set, ground to rooftop forest
Twenty-two 4K stills plus plan, elevation, massing model beside Marina Bay Sands, clay study and material board.
