Botanic Gardens MRT station is an underground
Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) interchange station on the
Downtown line
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Tanglin
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Singapore
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, located at the junction of
Bukit Timah Road
Bukit Timah Road (; ms, Jalan Bukit Timah; ta, புக்கித் திமா சாலை) is a major road in Singapore extending from the city centre to Woodlands Road on the way to Johor Bahru in Malaysia. The road has a length of 25& ...
and Cluny Park Road.
The station is located at the northwestern corner of the
Singapore Botanic Gardens
The Singapore Botanic Gardens is a -year-old tropical garden located at the fringe of the Orchard Road shopping district in Singapore. It is one of three gardens, and the only tropical garden, to be honoured as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Th ...
, where it was named after. It is the nearest MRT station to the Bukit Timah campus of the
National University of Singapore
The National University of Singapore (NUS) is a national public research university in Singapore. Founded in 1905 as the Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States Government Medical School, NUS is the oldest autonomous university in the c ...
. As
Bukit Brown MRT station
Bukit Brown MRT station is a future underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the Circle line (CCL), located in Novena planning area, Singapore. Announced along with the 17 stations of CCL Stages 4 and 5 in November 2005, it was designat ...
is currently non-operational, the section of tracks between Botanic Gardens station and
Caldecott MRT station
Caldecott MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) interchange station on the Circle line (CCL) and Thomson–East Coast line (TEL), located in Toa Payoh planning area, Singapore. It is situated underneath Toa Payoh Link near t ...
is the longest between any two stations on the Circle line.
History
The station was first announced as Adam station when the Circle Line (CCL) Stages 4 and 5 stations were revealed in 2003. The contract for the construction and completion of Adam and Farrer stations (including of twin bored tunnels was awarded to Taisei Corporation for approximately S$391 million in July 2004.
Public consultation of the station began in January 2006 and only two names were selected - Botanic Gardens and Cluny Road. Botanic Gardens was eventually selected because this station also connects to the popular UNESCO World Heritage Site. Cluny Road was also selected because it was around the location of a former railway station "Cluny Road" that closed down in 1930s. On 12 September that year, the final name of Botanic Gardens was chosen due to it being a popular offered choice by those who polled.
Construction of the Circle line station began on 10 March 2005. It had acquired some of the Botanic Gardens, but restored on 10 March 2010. The station opened on 8 October 2011.
Downtown line
![DT9 Botanic Gardens MRT Platform A 20201011 163004](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/DT9_Botanic_Gardens_MRT_Platform_A_20201011_163004.jpg)
The station was first announced to be an interchange station with the DTL when the DTL2 (Downtown line Stage 2) stations were unveiled on 15 July 2008. Contract 919 for the design and construction of Stevens station and associated tunnels was awarded to Sembawang Engineers and Constructors Pte Ltd at an approximate value of in July 2009. The contract also includes the construction of the adjacent
Stevens station. Construction of the station was scheduled to commence in the third quarter of 2009 and targeted to complete by 2015. On 11 March 2012, a worker was killed at a site near the Botanic Gardens, beside the contractor's site office after a
concrete slab
A concrete slab is a common structural element of modern buildings, consisting of a flat, horizontal surface made of cast concrete. Steel- reinforced slabs, typically between 100 and 500 mm thick, are most often used to construct floors and ...
fell on him. 35-year-old Masud al-Mamun was operating an excavator deep in the ground when the slab fell on him. Rescuers had to use a breaking tool kit to break a portion of the concrete slab. It took nearly five hours to reach the man lying motionless on the ground. This was the first casualty related case in the construction of the Downtown line. The station opened on 27 December 2015 along with the other DTL2 stations.
Art in Transit
The artwork featured in the Circle line section under the Art in Transit programme is ''Aquatic Fauna No. 1'' by Kai Lam and Chua Chye Teck. The mural, displayed above the platform doors, contains symbolic imageries of water and aquatic animals using the Chinese paper cutting technique.
The "fauna" mural not only highlights the station's proximity to the Botanic Gardens, but also complements the 2-storey high water-cascading wall in the station, the first to have such a feature within the station.
The Downtown line section features the artwork "What is a Tree?" by Shirley Soh. Various vistas of the Tembusu on the front lawn of the Botanic Gardens are created to pose the ontological questions.
File:CC19 Botanic Gardens Platform B.jpg, Circle Line Platform Botanic Gardens
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