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Biopolis Phase One is a 185,000 m² (2,000,000 ft²) biomedical complex of seven buildings that were constructed from June 2003 to March 2004 at a cost of S$500 million. They are namely: Nanos, Genome, Helios, Chromos, Proteos, Matrix and Centros. Several government agencies, publicly-funded research institutes and research labs of pharmaceutical and biotechnological companies are located there.

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Biopolis Phase Two was completed in October 2006, comprising two blocks, named Neuros and Immunos, which will house research on neuroscience and immunology respectively. The seven-storey 37,000 m² complex was designed and constructed over 18 months at a cost of S$70 million. The new addition increases the Biopolis research complex to a total of 222,000 m², or about half the size of Suntec City.^[1]^[2]

Biopolis fact Sheet

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For the general public, Biopolis has eight shops, four restaurants, four cafes, a 300-seater food court, a fast food restaurant, a pub and a childcare centre.

[edit] Function rooms

For its members, Biopolis has a 480-seater auditorium and four 250-seater lecture theaters. It also has 13 meeting rooms.

[edit] Accommodation

There are plans to build a hotel nearby and a large number of private condominium units. The latter is controversial, attracting public concern whether such developments are needed, especially during turbulent economic conditions. Biopolis is further surrounded by nearby HDB housing estates.

[edit] Biopolis arts programme

A piece of sculpture at Biopolis

An initiative of the one-north arts program, one-north Development Group (oDG) of JTC Corporation launched the first Biopolis Arts Program@one-north on 14 May 2002. oDG supports the nurturing of the local and overseas arts community, by way of co-developing and funding the art programs in one-north. All major developmental projects in one-north will be encouraged to contribute towards the funding of significant artwork in-situ.

[edit] Notes

^ Daryl Loo, "2 new Biopolis blocks to beef up research", The Straits Times, 31 October 2006
^ Tan Hui Leng, "Biopolis booster for local biomed scene", Today, 31 October 2006

[edit] External links

Official homepage
Singapore Acts as Haven for Stem Cell Research The New York Times, August 16, 2006
Singapore's Biomedical Sciences Initiative
Singapore - The Biopolis of Asia

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My photos featured in various medias

2009-05-23T07:39:00.000-07:00

In Radio DJ Ye Yong Mei's Blog.

Used by Italian artist Luisa Rabbia in her painting.

Featured in Nowpublic.com, by Kaitlin Fontana in the article: The best cities of the world survey.

Featured in Author Pat Hartman's Blog.

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Featured in S'pore Press Holdings, Stomp- Singapore Seen.

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1. Stunning sunset, 2. The Singapore Merlion, 3. Clark Quay sunset, 4. River of gold, 5. The Biopolis fish pond, 6. Spontaneity, 7. Biopolis buildings, 8. The colourful houses of Singapore River,

9. On the way to Botanical garden, 10. Stunning Singapore River, 11. Beautifu patterns of the sky, the clouds are drawings, 12. Sunset, 13. A street off Ximenting, 14. Taipei 101, 15. The Espanade, Theatres on the Bay, 16. Las Vegas intergrated resorts

Comments on my photos

2009-05-21T15:25:00.001-07:00

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All your images are very very beautiful! Congrats !

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Absolutely gorgeous :)

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2009-05-19T17:05:00.000-07:00

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Awards and featured in Singapore Press Holdings internal 3000 of newsletter,news clippings had since lost.

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Interview with Janice Seah, Straits Times

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Podcast Karen Jarrett related my experiences in a podcast in UK

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Kaitlin Fontana Now Public

Hi leonghimwoh,

My name is Kaitlin and I work for NowPublic.com. I’m
working on a story about a survey that ranks the world’s
best cities. I’d like to use your photo of Geneva to help
add context to my story–Geneva was named the #2 city in
the world. I also invite you to comment on the story; do
you agree or disagree with the list? Let us know.

NowPublic is a news sharing community that relies on
stories, photos, & videos from people like you.

Would you be interested in sharing your work with our
members? If so, or to learn more about this request please
click the link below.

http://www.nowpublic.com/import/4612afb42d2952.24410659

Thanks very much for your time.

Thanks,
Kaitlin

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Italian artist used my photo for her artwork;
Hello Henry,
i will certainly inform and send you a link to the
drawing, but I am not there, yet.
I just printed the long strip which includes your photo
and I am about starting the drawing.
Do not worry, I won't forget to keep you posted.
Thanks again!
Luisa
http://www.data.com.sg/iProjectDetails.jsp?bldg=ONE%20COMMONWEALTH

Luisa Rabbia

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Wow! Italian artist used my photo for her artwork

2009-05-19T16:58:00.000-07:00

A reply from Luisa of Italy:

Hello Henry,
i will certainly inform and send you a link to the
drawing, but I am not there, yet.
I just printed the long strip which includes your photo
and I am about starting the drawing.
Do not worry, I won't forget to keep you posted.
Thanks again!
Luisa
http://www.data.com.sg/iProjectDetails.jsp?bldg=ONE%20COMMONWEALTH

From:	lurabbia No real name given
Subject:	your photos and my drawings
	Hello Leong, congratulations for your photos! My name is Luisa Rabbia, I am an Italian artist. I work with different media, especially with drawings and I am currently collecting images on line from Romania, Marocco and Torino. the idea is to mix those images and built a surreal landscape on which I can draw. (Why images from those three places? because the highest number of immigrants in Torino is from Morocco and Romania. The idea is to built a new landscape mixing the three different cultures together and to use it as a background for my drawings). While surfing on line I landed on your flickr web site and a couple of your images have caught my attention so I'd like to know if I could use some of them - crediting each photo with your name on the original photo in which I'll draw. I cannot attach here any pics to show you how the surreal landscape will look like, but you can check this link out: www.luisarabbia.com/Travels-with-Isabella(1)-drawing.html it shows you another project I developed same way, but using old images from China (the blue trees-roots are my drawings). I would really appreciate if you could tell me your feeling about it, since I won't use your images without your permission, but I am also very excited about starting the project! ps the image i am interested on is at this page: www.flickr.com/photos/henryleong/401889806/ Best Luisa

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2008-08-16T05:58:00.000-07:00

Henry Leong calls this scene "The Stunning Singapore River."

Singapore photographer Henry Leong says he has been taking pictures for more than 30 years, on and off, since he was a few years old. His favourite pictures are of landscapes and travel photographs. He used a Sony T200 compact camera for this picture on the left, which he entitled "The Stunning Singapore River."

Henry says, "Of the numerous pictures I took that day in this particular area, I picked this picture because the place was lively - the young boy was trying to take a picture of the beautiful sunset, and some ladies who were around there were drawn to and looking opposite the reverse bumpee jump." Henry says he didn't use any filters, but "just increased the warmth of the pictures."

Henry worked a few years as a printer, which he says helps in his photography. "Photography is important," says Henry, "because it is universally understood by every person. My tip is to take as many photos of the subjects that you want to take. And take lots of pictures."

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Radio DJ Yong Mei had help to put my photos to the top of the chart

2008-07-08T21:34:00.001-07:00

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Featured in Now Public.Com, Best Cities of the World Survey

2008-06-14T00:20:00.000-07:00

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NowPublic says:

Thank you for sharing your photo! This photograph appears in a NowPublic news story: The best cities in the world: survey.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink | delete )

Kaitlin Fontana Now Public

Hi leonghimwoh,

NowPublic is a news sharing community that relies on
stories, photos, & videos from people like you.

Would you be interested in sharing your work with our
members? If so, or to learn more about this request please
click the link below.

http://www.nowpublic.com/import/4612afb42d2952.24410659

Thanks very much for your time.

Thanks,
Kaitlin

Featured in renowned dj blog Renee Ye

2008-06-14T00:07:00.000-07:00

新加坡的天空！

I wish you bluebirds in the spring, to give your heart a song to sing,
I wish you health and more than wealth, I wish you love.

And in July some lemonade, to cool you in some leafy glade,
I wish you health and more than wealth, I wish you love.

My breaking heart and I agree that you and I could never be,
So with my best, my very best, I set you free.

I wish you shelter from the storm, a cozy fire to keep you warm,
And most of all, when snowflakes fall, I wish you love.

(Michael Buble: "I wish you love")

8 comments:

Wan said...: 嗨，

好想念新加坡的天空，新加坡的家人！

人在澳洲柏斯的我; 5:32 PM
Anonymous said...: I really love the workshop conducted by Bryan lao shi is one of the best workshop. My mom enjoy alot and i have never regretted travelling such a long distant.

But i hope the venue can be nicer next time. But i must say is an eye opener.

My mom keep talking about it till now and ask me to feedback here.

Judy; 4:06 PM
Ah Gal said...: So beautiful! I think we hardly realise how beautiful life can be.
Yong Mei, thanks for sharing these beautiful pics of our spore sky.; 9:39 PM
L-5 said...: Hi Yong Mei,

The photos were very well taken. Nice work.

Thanks for sharing. :)

Cheers
L-5; 10:36 PM
Anonymous said...: 几美一下的。

如果再经本大师 . . . sorry，本大叔指点两招，
那就会再美多几下的啦。

－大叔－; 1:51 AM
Anonymous said...: Hi Yongmei,

It was an fulfilling and eye-opening workshop organised by Mediacorp last friday.

Of course the main speaker, Bryan is also handsome, cute, humourous, talented, witty etc....

Hope to attend more of such workshop in the near future; 11:59 PM
傻MUI said...: er.....pictures taken by Henry Leong, a listener who loves photography!

I like to take pictures of skies too but seldom in Singapore.; 8:35 AM
Henry Leong said...: Thanks Yong Mei!; 9:12 AM

My photo featured in the Artitecture blog

2008-06-14T00:00:00.000-07:00

Very Tall Buildings, Imaginary and Real

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By pathartman

Categories: Architectural Research, Architecture, Services and Sustainable Design
Tags: Frank Lloyd Wright, height, high-rise, seismic, skyscraper, tallest

For Wired magazine, Rob Beschizza put together an interesting collection of pictures titled “Mile High Skyscrapers and Floating Cities That Never Were.” In contrast, we’ll also look at some of the proceedings of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. But first, the visionary products of several imaginations, considered by Beschizza, whose introduction goes like this:

With the space age entering its crassly commercial phase and science fiction dominated by gritty dystopian visions, you could be forgiven for giving up on the future. But not everyone has. With Dubai’s 800-meter-tall Burj Dubai skyscraper almost complete, starry-eyed visions of tomorrow’s cities are more popular than they’ve been in 50 years.

Here’s a collection of promised skylines we never got to see — and a few that may yet come to be — as seen from the imagined eyes of those who live there.

The collection includes the Illinois, which Frank Lloyd Wright never was able to build; a Moscow skyscraper whose construction only got as far as its enormous base before World War II intervened; various arcologies; proposed mile-high towers in Kuwait City and Jeddah; and the three-mile avenue with gigantic buildings along both sides which Albert Speer proposed for the Berlin city center.

The tallest building ever to boast a complete set of blueprints, Beschizza points out, was a proposed building called the X-Seed, which the Taisei Corporation designed back in the mid-Nineties. It would have exceeded Mount Fuji in height. He also looks at an abandoned North Korean project, the Ryugyong Hotel, which apparently had to be given up because the construction materials just didn’t hold together. Then there was the Ultima Tower, designed by Eugene Tsui, whose footprint would have covered two square miles.

Regardless of the difficulties, other very tall structures have emerged from the imagination into reality. On their website, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat gives an overview of the recent 8th World Congress, whose theme was “Tall and Green: Typology for a Sustainable Urban Future.”

It was a record event for the Council, with 954 delegates including more than 50 members of the press in attendance…Amongst the attendees were a number of the most prominent faces in the architecture, engineering and construction industry…. In addition to panel sessions and workshops, attendees were invited to participate in technical tours to local tall buildings and mega projects including the Burj Dubai, now the world’s tallest building under construction…

Held in Dubai, the event drew experts in all aspects of tall building development, from 43 countries. For those who missed it, the website includes a complete list of all the papers and videos available for downloading. These range from “A Vision for the World’s Tallest” to “Engineering the World’s Tallest.” Topics considered by the Congress included all the same matters as would be taken into account with any building, yet with extreme altitude there are unavoidable differences, since certain problems do not grow arithmetically with height, they grow geometrically, exponentially.

The Congress explored everything from aesthetics to economics, looking at all aspects of sustainability, of which there are many, in relation to very tall buildings. How to save material in a tall building structure; how to be both tall and green at the same time. Is elevator technology keeping up with the need for it? What about ventilation? What kinds of energy can be harnessed, and how? What will wind and fire do? What are the options for evacuation in the event of disaster? What’s the psychological effect on the people who live and/or work in incomprehensibly elevated spaces? What kind of noise will the building require them to put up with? Papers were presented on “Nonlinear Dynamic Earthquake Analysis” and on hydraulic dampers to absorb seismic shock. One presenter issued a call for tall buildings to become less iconic and more specific. Another explored the concept of “the Vertical Farm: the sky-scraper as vehicle for a sustainable urban agriculture.”

There seems to be spirited debate in some quarters, over how high a building can or should be. Any additional thoughts are welcome here.

SOURCE: “Mile High Skyscrapers and Floating Cities That Never Were” 04/17/08
photo courtesy of leonghimwoh , used under this Creative Commons license

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My photos that were featured in Stomp

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2008-03-31T22:46:00.001-07:00

Singapore Chingay Parade 08 photos

2008-02-04T07:23:00.000-08:00

I had been making props for the Chingay Parade since 1997. This is also a crucial year as it was telecast to alots of countries.

This year I think is possibly the most challenging year, with 20 sets of crabs, each set of crabs had ten hands/legs, which required tremendous amount of work to be done.

Lots of care need to pieces together those small parts.

I mostly concentrated doing the finishing work like touch up and spray painting the crab props. It only possible, because James the in charge asked me to bring my son along, as I need to take care of him when my wife is working.

James is the most experience person, he told me he is interesting in the props since a child , like making dragon/lion dance props when he was very young.

Fortunately he asked to bring along my son, so that I am able to come down to the workshop to contribute to the prop group, even my wife is working.

For a period of time I used to working in the welding line which required me to paint lots iron grills.

This time I concentrated mostly on smoothen the parts and spray painting the crabs props and helping out in other props also.

Is it blur/camera shake or lights refraction of the lens?

2007-12-06T18:43:00.001-08:00

Puzzle solved light refractions thought as blur, view in large format background building was not blur. Little lights refracted from far away, may look blurred. Lots of awards indicated that. I had put a note on the background building.

With the advance in today technology that able to capture the refractions with the camera internal computer.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/10to1/discuss/72157603361492801/

http://www.flickr.com/groups/blackwhite/discuss/72157603857939916/

In this forum, some thought it was due to camera shake or blurred image. I think it was due to the refraction of lights projected from the camera lens.

You notice the corner blue were projected in the 3 directions and the background building was not blurred.

The little lights on the boats also projected out some distance by the spatial refraction of the lens.

Even the image was view large the buildings were not blurred.

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2007-12-04T20:56:00.000-08:00

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[edit] Development

[edit] Phase One

[edit] Phase Two

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[edit] Biopolis arts programme

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新加坡的天空！

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Very Tall Buildings, Imaginary and Real

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