In 2012‎,‎ Wilkinson Eyre was part of a British‎-led team that won the design competition for one of the most ambitious cultural projects of recent years ‎- the masterplan for Singapore‎'‎s Gardens by the Bay‎.‎ One of the defining projects of this dynamic world city‎,‎ the project set out to reinforce a vision of Singapore as a ‎'‎City in a Garden‎'‎ delivering a major visitor attraction and destination on the Marina Bay waterfront‎.‎ The team ‎- led by landscape architects Grant Associates ‎- was subsequently commissioned to deliver the masterplan for the first phase of the gardens at Bay South‎,‎ with Wilkinson Eyre leading the design of the key built element within them ‎- the cooled conservatory complex‎.‎ The conservatories cover an area in excess of 20‎,‎000sqm and are among the largest climate controlled glasshouses in the world‎,‎ comprising a 1.28 hectare cool dry biome ‎(‎the ‎'‎Flower Dome‎'‎‎)‎ and a 0.73 hectare cool moist biome ‎(‎the ‎'‎Cloud Forest‎'‎‎)‎‎.‎ Together they represent a uniquely collaborative approach to design‎,‎ bringing together scientific and design disciplines to meet the challenge of creating cool growing conditions in a building typology more frequently used to produce a warm environment for plants‎.‎ The book tells Wilkinson Eyre‎'‎s story of the design‎,‎ describing in detail the challenges of designing and delivering this highly technical and culturally significant project‎,‎ and following the team through the early conceptual design stages as well as the construction process‎.‎ It also includes an architectural critique of the building and an essay placing the project in the context of Wilkinson Eyre Architects‎'‎ wider portfolio‎.‎