Platforms Island Platform levels 3 Level 3 Connections Bus, Taxicab | Structure type Underground Address Bukit Timah Rd, Singapore Tracks 4 | |
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Location 100 Cluny Park Road
Singapore 257494 Operated by SMRT Trains (SMRT Corporation) (Circle Line)
SBS Transit DTL (Downtown Line) Line(s) Circle Line
Downtown Line Similar Farrer Road MRT Station, Singapore Botanic Gardens, Tan Kah Kee MRT Station, Newton MRT Station, Promenade MRT Station | ||
Botanic Gardens MRT Station (CC19/DT9) is an underground Mass Rapid Transit interchange station on the Circle Line and Downtown Line in Tanglin, Singapore.
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This station is located near the Singapore Botanic Gardens at the intersection of Bukit Timah Road and Cluny Park Road, hence its name. It is also near the National University of Singapore Bukit Timah campus and is behind Serene Centre. As the Bukit Brown station will only be operational after the Bukit Brown area has been developed enough, the section of track between Botanic Gardens and Caldecott is the longest on the Circle Line. As the distance between the Circle Line and Downtown Line platforms is relatively long, it has travelators, the fourth station after Dhoby Ghaut, Serangoon and Bugis to have travelators within the paid area.
The Downtown Line station (DT09) was designed by AEP Consultants and Geoconsult Asia and was constructed by Sembawang Engineers & Constructors.
Botanic Gardens station is the only MRT station in Singapore to have an official Malay name.
Casualty incident
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 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 is the first casualty related case in the construction of the Downtown Line.
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.