SILA SEMEC Award for Analysis & Planning Category Merit Award 2022
Led by Grant Associates, WilkinsonEyre was part of a team for a major masterplan to reinvent the Singaporean islands of Sentosa and Pulau Brani as a global leisure and recreation destination set within a biodiverse tropical landscape.
The new Sentosa-Brani masterplan aims to integrate the two islands and create a world-class leisure and tourist resort, utilising the islands’ tropical landscape setting and expanding on Sentosa’s existing legacy as Singapore’s ‘Island Escape’.
Proposals within the masterplan include naturalising the island of Brani, a former industrial port, while also retaining a sense of its commercial heritage. Sentosa’s sandy beachfront will be redefined and the island’s rainforest ridgelines will be reconnected. There are also plans to restore natural habitats, including the coastal coral reefs between Sentosa and Brani, and reinstate wetland areas.
These new and richly biodiverse settings will form the backdrop for a series of new themed attractions and leisure opportunities along with hotels, transport and other commercial projects. Developments will conform to a comprehensive new sustainability agenda, setting new standards for Singapore’s leisure and attraction industry.
