Raffles Hotel, Singapore

Somerset Maugham, a frequent guest, called Raffles, ‘the hotel that stands for all the fables of the Exotic East’. With loving care, Raffles Hotel, thought by many to be synonymous with the image of Singapore, was restored, redeveloped and reopened on 16th September 1991.
The landscape design for this most unique of projects involved extensive research into the hotel’s original landscape planting, materials and features, together with the careful protection, and in some cases transplanting, of the existing mature traveller’s palms, Livistona palms and frangipani trees, many of which were over 90 years old.