The Minton

Client: Peak Garden Pte Ltd
Architect: DP Architects Pte Ltd
Landscape Architect/Designer: Salad Dressing
Main Contractor: Qingjian Group Co. Ltd, Singapore Branch
Year: 2017

LIAS Awards of Excellence 2015
Gold – Implementation (Residential)

A circular graphic with a red background and a border of various colorful flowers and green leaves, featuring the text 'LIAS Awards of Excellence 2015' in white font.

LIAS Awards of Excellence 2017
Silver – Maintenance (Residential)

Lia's Awards of Excellence 2017 Gold badge with purple flowers and green leaves.

The Minton is a 1,145-units, which cover half a million square feet (approximately 7 football fields) is packed with facilities and water areas. There are a total of 1,155 trees and palms, 81,300 shrubs and groundcovers planted. Amidst the modern amenities, a lush tropical forest abound on the North Eastern side of the development. From a bird's eye view it seems a portion of unending multiplicity of green from the forest have been 'transplanted' onto the compound of this development.

This is the core location where residents are able to feel the therapeutic sensation of the vertical 'forest' and where the diversity of flora and fauna coexist in a symbiotic world.

Children’s Play Area (Wet Playground)

A modern residential apartment complex with balconies and glass windows reflects in a swimming pool. Lounge chairs and trees are around the pool area.
View of a colorful children's playground with a carousel, climbing structures, and a water feature, surrounded by greenery and high-rise apartment buildings.

Children are spoilt for choice by the various wet play themes available with topiary animals strategically placed around the play area. Some of the play items include the wet play structure, wading pool, swimming pool, ‘merry go round’, tree house and ‘rock n log’ outdoor chess set. Lush hedges along the residential perimeters (PES Area) provides the screen for privacy to the ground level dwellers.

Tranquil World

High-rise residential buildings surrounding a lush green garden with walking paths, trees, a pond, and a wooden observation walkway in an urban area.

Amidst the modern amenities, a lush tropical forest abound on the North Eastern side of the development. From a bird’s eye view it seems a portion of unending multiplicity of green from the forest have been ‘transplanted’ onto the compound of this development. This is the core location where residents are able to feel the therapeutic sensation of the vertical ‘forest’ and where the diversity of flora and fauna coexist in a symbiotic world.

Cascading Waterfalls

A modern urban park with multiple tiered water features, lush greenery, and trees, set against a backdrop of a high-rise glass building.
A lush green garden with a wooden pathway and a small water feature surrounded by dense trees and foliage.

The huge extend of the cascading weirs echoes the forest’s water symphony and camouflages ones’ thoughts away from the mundane world. A comfortable soothing element to a hectic life. The water walls  breathing sound and light is created to negotiate the change in levels of the development. Residents can have a pristine scroll along the water elements and savour the cheerfulness of the chirping birds mingling amongst the trees.

Amazonian pond

Modern high-rise apartment buildings with balconies, surrounding lush greenery, a pond with water lilies, and a wooden bridge in an urban garden setting.
A landscaped urban garden with tall green trees and plants, a small pond with water lilies, and a curved wooden deck with benches, surrounded by residential high-rise buildings in the background.

A diverse collection of local tree species, fresh water fishes and undulating marginal plants are in abundance around the allotted lushness. Residents can mingle in a ‘lost world’ for their get together. Children are encouraged to forage along the shallow water edge to enjoy the ‘lost kampong lifestyle’ of ‘yesteryears’. All this right outside the doorsteps of their houses.

One can never imagine that a lush tropical forest with water habitat of miniature scale, can be within a condominium dwelling, set on top of a basement car park. The bio-pond, with its undulating and richly layered array of marginal plants, reintroduces the palustrine ecosystem that was once scattered throughout Singapore.

Contemporary Bridge

View of a lush green courtyard with various trees and plants, with modern glass apartment buildings in the background and a shaded outdoor seating area with people.
Modern high-rise apartment building with glass balconies overlooking a landscaped park with wooden benches, trees, and walking paths.

A contemporary wave like timber bridge separates and yet connects the Northern and Southern side of the development as the main thoroughfare where residents are able to ‘cross over’ seamlessly within the development. The curvy wavy planters on deck softens the vast expand of the timber deck. The perforation of the safety side rails enables residents to savour the lush ‘vertical forest’ below.

Lap Pool

View of a swimming pool in a residential complex with green trees and shrubbery on either side, surrounded by modern apartment buildings with balconies and large glass windows. A person is swimming in the pool, and a few people are walking on the pathway nearby.

An Olympic size swimming pool provides ardent swimmers to exercise and practice their strokes in the semi raised pool. Pool side cabanas provide ample space and privacy for those who prefers to stay dry and relax in an open space.

Peripheral Access

View of a modern apartment building with glass windows and balconies, surrounded by trees and greenery, with a paved walking path in the foreground.
Tall modern apartment building with glass balconies and a lush green park with trees and a paved pathway in the foreground.

The main peripheral driveway adorned with lush ‘coloured foliage’ (seasonal) trees gives one the ‘changing of the seasons’ experience from the  metamorphosing of the Lagerstroemia trees, providing a myriad of colour variations, along the main access roadway.

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