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“THE BIOPHILIC GARDEN” by Kazuyuki Ishihara, a garden designer who won the Gold Medal in the Landscape/Garden category at “Singapore Garden Festival 2024”
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Kazuyuki Ishihara, a garden designer affiliated with Yoshimoto Kogyo, created the Singapore Garden Festival (SGF), which was held at Suntec Singapore in Singapore from Saturday, August 3rd to Sunday, August 11th. We received the Gold Medal in the Landscape/Garden Category. The Singapore Garden Festival, held once every two years in Singapore, is an event where famous and award-winning gardeners, landscape designers, and horticulturists from all over the world gather, and you can see their creative gardening works. This is one of the few flower shows that can be held.
Kazuyuki Ishihara was able to receive his second gold medal this time in his third attempt. This time’s “THE BIOPHILIC GARDEN” is a tea room built in the jungle with the theme of living in harmony with nature, and is a work that Ishihara is proud to have designed with the intention of disseminating Japanese culture from Singapore to the world.
-Kazuyuki Ishihara comment-
[Image 1: https://prtimes.jp/i/29501/3357/resize/d29501-3357-18df153270e528d9e5e9-0.jpg&s3=29501-3357-f1b93aab2cb19e564c08cce3c4392484-400×400.jpg] We received the Gold Medal in the Landscape Garden category at the Singapore Garden Festival 2024. This was my third time participating in the event, and my second gold medal.
This time, with the title “THE BIOPHILIC GARDEN”, I thought of the theme of living in harmony with nature.
I am happy that I was able to build a tea room in the jungle and spread Japanese culture from Singapore to the world.
I am also very happy to be able to promote Japanese craftsmanship from Singapore to the world.
I would like to continue to spread Japan’s wonderful gardening techniques to the world.
2024 [Gold Medal] Award-winning work “THE BIOPHILIC GARDEN”
(Garden exterior)
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(At the award ceremony)
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Born in 1958. Born in Nagasaki Prefecture. Representative of Kazuyuki Ishihara Design Institute.
At the age of 22, he entered Ikenobo, the mainstream school of flower arranging. Since then, he has been fascinated by flowers and greenery, and after selling flowers on the street and in stores, he started gardening.
After that, the garden with a unique world view using moss was highly praised at the Chelsea Flower Show, the highest international gardening show, and until 2024, it won an unprecedented total of 12 gold medals, and became the show’s president. “You are the Green Magician,” said Queen Elizabeth.
At Haneda Airport (inside Terminal 1 Building), which is also the gateway to Japan, we have recreated the work “Flower Paradise,” which won a gold medal at the Chelsea Flower Show. Since 2015, he has worked with Shibuya Ward to produce the Shibuya Hachiko Garden as part of the Shibuya greening project. In 2016, we produced “Umekita Garden”, an oasis of flowers and gardens, in “Umekita Phase 2”, a redevelopment area north of JR Osaka Station. We are active not only in Japan but also with the slogan “Fill the world with flowers and greenery.”
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