Hi Deux,
I think everyone's keen for Eng Lim to speed things up! But honestly at this rate that they are moving, I am not sure if Parc Mondrian will be completed by Q2 2010. I am no construction expert myself, so really cannot comment.
But nonetheless, the pics look encouraging! Thanks to JChong who posted it! That's ingenious. I have never thought of going up the HDB flats to take a look instead. I will do that over this weekend.
On Eng Lim's projects, I think Eng Lim does have quite a fair bit of civil construction projects which included Circle Line phase 3, SATS Airfreight Terminal and Singapore Airshow 30 hectares site development. So I think they should be fine. Eng Lim is not a small construction firm to start with, so hopefully they might weather the crisis better.
But so far Sembawang is very slow in billing us too! Which is good!!! Heheheee.... After so many many months, they only recently billed for the piling work (10% of total cost).
Some trivial on the trees along Woodleigh which I thought might be interesting to the PM and Blossoms residents. Before we exercised the option, we were quite concerned that the view might be blocked by the tall tall trees lining Woodleigh area, hence did quite a fair bit of research. It is interesting to note that the tall trees are in fact heritage trees listed in NPARKS website, and even their specs are listed! .
<Exerpt from NPARKS>:
Highlight on some Heritage Trees
(A3) Angsana Tree (
Pterocarpus indicus) at Upper Serangoon Road
This tree of about 60 years old, is found on the side-table of Upper Serangoon Road, between Woodleigh Park and Woodleigh Close. With a girth of 7.7 m, this is one of the largest roadside trees in Singapore.
Instead of allowing the widening of drainage channel to encroach into the sidetable where the tree is sited, the tree was saved from the axe by realigning the drainage channel under the road surface.
A large tree with a dense, wide-spreading and drooping dome-shaped crown. Angsana was introduced to Singapore for roadside plantings in the early years of the Garden City Movement as it is fast-growing and also provide good shade for pedestrians. This is clearly evident as one takes a
walk down Angsana-lined Orchard Road from Liat Tower to Ngee Ann City.
The faintly fragrant flowers are yellow and in large bunches. The floral buds develop inconspicuously until the right stimulus triggers the entire crown to bloom in yellow simultaneously.
The flowers last only for one day. Subsequently, they will rain down the next morning, laying yellow carpets by the road and car parks.