Singapore, 1 July 2021 – Singapore Post Limited (SingPost) today launched a commemorative set of six stamps featuring prominent buildings with skyrise greenery in Singapore. Measuring 81.6 mm in height each, the set of stamps are the tallest stamps issued in Singapore’s history.
The stamps celebrate skyrise greenery projects built by both public and private developers in the last 10 years that have inspired new possibilities and frontiers in shaping Singapore as a City in Nature. The six developments featured are: Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (completed in 2010); Oasia Hotel Downtown (2016); Kampung Admiralty (2017); Jewel Changi Airport (2018); SkyTerrace@Dawson (2015) and Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum (2015). The first five have received Design of the Year at the President*s Design Award (P*DA) and the last was designed by two recipients of Designer of the Year.
Singapore’s greenery plan has evolved over the decades. What started out as founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s vision of building Singapore into a Garden City has since progressed significantly with the city-state’s development, with Singapore becoming a globally renowned biophilic City in a Garden today, and now setting its sights to transforming into a City in Nature.
Despite being land scarce, the commitment to greening Singapore remains a priority in the city-state’s future development. The Landscaping for Urban Spaces and High-Rises (LUSH) programme introduced in 2009 to encourage building developers to adopt skyrise greenery in their building design, was one of many initiatives to support implementation of skyrise greening island-wide, and an innovative strategy to integrate lush greenery into Singapore’s urban fabric. Developers are incentivised to incorporate greenery onto the multitude of vertical and horizontal, exterior and interior spaces in a building through innovative designs and technology to replace greenery from the building sites. As of end 2020, the LUSH scheme has enabled the introduction of more than 250 hectares of greenery within new developments in the past decade, resulting in the abundance of greenery in what could have just been a concrete jungle.
Sale of stamps
The stamps (valued between 30 cents and $1.40), Pre-cancelled First Day Covers with stamps (S$6.30) and Presentation Packs (S$7.35) are available at all post offices, philatelic stores and online at shop.singpost.com, while stocks last.
About Singapore Post Limited
For more than 160 years, Singapore Post (SingPost), as the country's postal service provider, has been delivering trusted and reliable services to homes and businesses in Singapore. Today, SingPost is pioneering and leading in eCommerce logistics as well as providing innovative mail and logistics solutions in Singapore and around the world, with operations in 19 markets.
Building on its trusted communications through domestic and international postal services, SingPost is taking the lead in end-to-end integrated and digital mail solutions. The suite of SingPost eCommerce logistics solutions includes front end web management, warehousing and fulfilment, last mile delivery and international freight forwarding.
