Ongzi's Stamps: cityscape

Thursday, 1 July 2021

Singapore 2021 Skyline Greenery

Singapore Post Limited (SingPost) today launched a commemorative set of six stamps featuring prominent buildings with skyrise greenery in Singapore. Measuring 81.6 mm in height each, the set of stamps are the tallest stamps issued in Singapore’s history.

The stamps celebrate skyrise greenery projects built by both public and private developers in the last 10 years that have inspired new possibilities and frontiers in shaping Singapore as a City in Nature. The six developments featured are: Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (completed in 2010); Oasia Hotel Downtown (2016); Kampung Admiralty (2017); Jewel Changi Airport (2018); SkyTerrace@Dawson (2015) and Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum (2015). The first five have received Design of the Year at the President*s Design Award (P*DA) and the last was designed by two recipients of Designer of the Year.

Singapore’s greenery plan has evolved over the decades. What started out as founding Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s vision of building Singapore into a Garden City has since progressed significantly with the city-state’s development, with Singapore becoming a globally renowned biophilic City in a Garden today, and now setting its sights to transforming into a City in Nature.

Despite being land scarce, the commitment to greening Singapore remains a priority in the city-state’s future development. The Landscaping for Urban Spaces and High-Rises (LUSH) programme introduced in 2009 to encourage building developers to adopt skyrise greenery in their building design, was one of many initiatives to support implementation of skyrise greening island-wide, and an innovative strategy to integrate lush greenery into Singapore’s urban fabric. Developers are incentivised to incorporate greenery onto the multitude of vertical and horizontal, exterior and interior spaces in a building through innovative designs and technology to replace greenery from the building sites. As of end 2020, the LUSH scheme has enabled the introduction of more than 250 hectares of greenery within new developments in the past decade, resulting in the abundance of greenery in what could have just been a concrete jungle.

Date of Issue : 1 July 2021

Denominations : 1st Local, 60₵, 70₵, 80₵, 90₵, $1.40

Stamp Size : 29.85mm x 81.6mm

Perforation : 13

Paper : Unwatermarked

Printing Process : Offset Lithography

Printer : Secura Singapore Pte Ltd

Sheet Content : 10 stamps per sheet

Graphic Designer : Wong Wui Kong

Friday, 1 February 1974

Malaysia 1974 Establishment of Kuala Lumpur as Federal Territory

Kuala Lumpur achieved city status on 1 February 1972, becoming the first settlement in Malaysia to be granted the status after independence. Later, on 1 February 1974, Kuala Lumpur became a federal territory. The territory of Kuala Lumpur expanded to 96 square miles by absorbing the surrounding areas. Kuala Lumpur was ceded by Selangor to be directly controlled by the central government, and it ceased to be capital of Selangor in 1978 after the city of Shah Alam was declared the new state capital.