Woodland

[The Taboo]

Towering in front of tall skyscrapers, these enormous tree appear to be thriving in the middle of the city.
But the vast woodland in Singapore is actually entirely manmade, stretching up to 50 metres into the sky.
The imposing trees have colossal concrete trunks weighing hundreds of tonnes. While thousands of thick wire rods have been used to create artificial branches and canopies.

 

Domineering: The island's vast skyscrapers can be seen behind the trees while to the left, a smaller real real tree struggles to reach the same immense heights

 

 

Reaching for the sky: The supertrees are made from a thick concrete trunk while metal rods have been sculptured together to form the bark and the canopies

 

 

 

How much water do these need? Workers in hardhats look at the plans for the enormous suprtrees in Singapore's Marina South area that is hoped to become the

botanical capital of the world

Photo-synthetic: A worker fixes concrete beams to a crane before the extra parts are hoisted up to the trunks of the supertrees