Who would have thought that there is a great place to relax, unwind and get reunited with nature at the end of the busy streets of EDSA?

Busy and traffic annoying EDSA

To the left to the left

Yup that one!

Take a walk in the park and relax at the Sky Garden!
Sky Garden is what the SM City North EDSA dubbed as the shoppers own corner of the sky and will be open for public starting Friday, May 29. The formal press introduction of the Sky Garden will be held on Monday, May 25.

The new and improved SM City North EDSA



Luscious greens and relaxing sound of waterfalls

Mushroom like roofing

Lovely fountains

A park at the heart of the busy city



Modern but simplistic architecture

Unique structures surrounded by lush greens and flowers


Manmade hill at the Sky Garden

The hill is as tall as the Sky Dome
Sky Garden is an elevated curvilinear park at the second floor of the former parking lot offering much needed green space . It buffers the mall from the busy EDSA intersection, and serves as a living, organic link between the different components of the Block, The City Center and The Annex composing the SM City North EDSA.

Entrance and exit halls connected to the mall

The main attractions of the Sky Garden are the Roof Garden, the Sky Dome, and the water features that include two bubblers, a simulated river flowing at the center and waterfalls at the edge of the second floor.
This wonderful elevated park in the city encompasses 13,000 sq meters floor area, 2,000 sq meters were dedicated for the strings of retail shops and specialty stores like cafes, grills, and dining outlets on ponds or cluster around circular pocket gardens.



Experience Al Fresco dining

Floating restaurants Persian Grill to the left and Starbucks to the right

The manmade river



The main attractions of the Sky Garden are the Roof Garden, the Sky Dome, and the water features that include two bubblers, a simulated river flowing at the center and waterfalls at the edge of the second floor. The Sky Dome is a great venue for concerts and other activities that can seat up to 1,000 people. The stage and seats are movable to cater to cater to different kinds of events. The Roof Garden has about 55 species of plants, grass and trees.


The Sky Dome

Half of the dome is see-through to save light at day time




Completing the experience will be the food and retail outlets that will give customers an al fresco dining and shopping experience. Restaurants such as La Mesa Grill, Persia Girll, Padi’s Point, Ineng’s BBQ, Pixie’s Sinugba, and Gerry’s Grill will be at the grill area. Coffee shops like Starbucks, Coffeeworks, Coffee Experience, and Curassco Express will be present too. Art’s Cream Gallery, Cello’s Donuts and Dips, Do Eat Cotton Candy, Ferino’s Bibingka, Green Mango, Kitchen of Cakes adn Coffee, Tita Lyn’s Suman, Fruits in Ice Cream, Heavenly Chocolate, Freshbar by Big Chill, Blushing Cupcakes and Chef Tony’s Popstore are some of the fun specialty food stores that will be visible too.

Strings of specialty stores can be found at the Sky Garden




What’s great about the Sky Garden has its own operating hours which is from 7AM to 2AM. It is an accessible hang-out place for the entire family, escalators and elevators are provided at the ground level. The ground level has a parking area and public transport terminal. The bridge way is connected to the MMDA overpass and the entire development will be connected to the combined LRT1, MRT1 and MRT7 Grand Terminal in the future.
Some other interesting pieces that can be found at The Sky Dome:
The sculptures on the next two photos were still covered with plastic as they were just installed that day we had our tour.


After lunch the structures were uncovered and this one was cute funky shapes and colors




The Sky Garden’s project team includes Arquitectonica, Conceptual Architect; W.V. Conscolluela and Associates, Architect of Record; New Golden City Builders and Development Corporation, General Contractors; and D A Abcede and Associates, Project Manager.
Tags: manmade hill, manmade river, SM City North EDSA, The Annex, The Block, The City Center, The Roof Garden, The Sky Dome, The Sky Garden



May 24th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
ganda. sayang di ako nakapunta.
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May 24th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
[...] I’ll tell you about the Sky Garden later with my post dedicated to the Sky Garden tour only. (Here is the full story and photos about the SM City North EDSA Sky Garden.) Then we had lunch at Padi’s Point and a fun trivia game was held. GC’s from ProLine [...]
May 24th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
@ Ohmski belated! OO nga sayang di ka nakapunta saya sana bday mo ahahahaha!
May 24th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Beautiful pictures of the Sky Garden! What a fun place. Cool blog
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May 25th, 2009 at 1:44 am
wow, ang ganda na pala sa SM North. its been too long. nice that they are incorporating nature and greenery in their mall concepts. galeng! at ang cool nga ng mga funky structures ha.
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May 25th, 2009 at 10:17 am
@Dinah I know the place is so HOT! laluna siguro pag open na lahat ng stores grabe they will be opened until magdamagan!
May 25th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
ganda, can’t wait for my uwi!
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May 25th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
Oo nga pasyal tayo pag dating mo malamang open na lahat ng resto and stores
May 26th, 2009 at 2:17 am
[...] great to see that SM City North EDSA reinvented itself. With the three cycle renovations it underwent I could say the new SM City North EDSA is the best [...]
May 26th, 2009 at 2:27 am
well masaya rin naman kahit d ako nag-events. hehehe
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May 26th, 2009 at 4:10 am
I’m looking forward to visiting the Sky Garden with my husband and son. This is such a cool treat for all SM shoppers. Thanks for sharing this info.
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May 27th, 2009 at 1:23 am
@Ohmski Oo nga mukha ka namang nag-enjoy
@Tetcha yeah go visit sobrang nice
May 28th, 2009 at 4:09 am
i heart this place very much kasi ang ganda ganda mamasyal dito and masasarap ung mga kainan… hehehe sana magkadots and more ulit…
May 30th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
I’M SO PROUD NA TAGA NORTH AREA AKO KASI MALAPIT LANG SA AMIN ANG PINAKAMALAKI AT PINAKAMAGANDANG MALL EVER. KAHIT EVER DAY PWEDENG PWEDENG PUNTAHAN. CONGRATZ SM NORTH!
June 2nd, 2009 at 12:29 pm
luhpet… taob ang trinoma…
June 6th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
I can’t wait to visit the Sky Garden.
June 13th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
As somone in the roofing business, I’m happy to find a blog like yours that has topics I can relate to ! Thanks for posting such informative and interesting info.
Thanks !
Harry
June 21st, 2009 at 7:17 am
waw. pwedeng pwedeng puntahan. malapit lapit lang sa school:D it’s so cool.
July 10th, 2009 at 7:27 am
Hola de parte de parejaspareja.es, encontre tu blog navegando por la red buscando bikini dare en google. Me parece super interesante la información que tienes en tu blog y sin lugar a dudas regresare a leerlo. Tengo una pregunta, si podria traducir tu blog “Earthlingorgeous.com » Blog Archive » SM City North EDSA The Sky Garden In Photos” y añadirlos a un de mis blogs en italiano? Y por supuesto con el link direccionando a tu blog. Estare esperando tu respuesta. parejaspareja.es
October 13th, 2009 at 5:06 am
hi, may idea ba kau kung anong tawag sa roofing na ginamit nila sa hallways ung para tela ung color white
March 8th, 2010 at 6:26 am
i have some photos of this too. I think SM NE is great.
January 8th, 2011 at 9:43 am
wow this is the most cool place to enjoy with family