Newton Suites

This 36-storey residential tower is designed to create houses in the sky. Residents come home via a garden lift lobby, and can use the cantilevered skygardens as spillout spaces as an extension of the compact apartments. For over a decade, the green wall along these sky gardens was the world’s tallest green wall. The design, integrating sun shading elements and creeper screens positions itself as a blurry, green, domestically scaled, and spatially engaging environment, rather than a sealed, hermetic, abstract object.

The area of vegetation exceeds 130% of the total site – this achievement within a normal commercial budget led to the planning authority legislating for 100% replacement green in Singapore, a policy which has transformed the city in the intervening decade. This first resolution of the skygarden with structure, circulation and plan has been subsequently adopted across the city, and now the region, in numerous developments.

2013

  • Asia Pacific Property Awards - Highly Commended

    “Best Apartment” category, awarded by the International Property Awards

  • Asia Pacific Property Awards - Highly Commended

    “Best Residential High Rise Development” category, awarded by the International Property Awards

2010

  • ULI Awards for Excellence - Asia Pacific Winner

    Awarded by Urban Land Institute

  • MIPIM Awards - Finalist

    Residential Developments category, awarded by Reed MIDEM

2009

  • MIPIM Asia Awards - Winner

    Residential Developments category, awarded by Reed MIDEM

  • 3rd LIAS Awards for Excellence - Gold Winner

    Awarded by Landscape Industry Association (Singapore)

  • International Architecture Award - Winner

    Awarded by The Chicago Athenaeum and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies

  • Green Good Design Award - Winner

    Awarded by The Chicago Athenaeum and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies

  • ULI Awards for Excellence - Asia Pacific Finalist

    Awarded by Urban Land Institute

  • FIABCI Prix d'Excellence - First Runner Up

    Residential Category, awarded by The International Real Estate Federation

2008

  • Design for Asia Awards - Gold Award

    Awarded by Hong Kong Design Centre

  • President's Design Award - Honorable Mention

    Awarded by the DesignSingapore Council and Urban Redevelopment Authority

  • CTBUH 2008 Best Tall Building Award - Nominated

    Awarded by Council of Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, Chicago, Illinois

  • Award for International Architecture - Winner

    Awarded by Australian Institute of Architects

  • SIA-NParks Skyrise Greenery Award 2008 - Design Award

    Awarded by the Singapore Institute of Architects and the National Parks Board, Singapore

  • Emirate Glass LEAF Awards - Finalist

    Category: Residential Building of the Year – Multiple Building Level, awarded by the Leading European Architects Forum

  • World Architecture Festival - Finalist

    Home, Housing Category, awarded by World Architecture Festival

  • The International Highrise Award 2008 - Finalist

    Awarded by City of Frankfurt, Deutsches Architekturmuseum and DekaBank

  • 9th SIA Architectural Design Awards 2008 - Honorable Mention

    Residential Projects Category, awarded by the Singapore Institute of Architects

  • Cityscape Asia Real Estate Awards 2008 - Best Developer

    Residential Built Category, awarded by Cityscape Asia

  • 2007 Emporis Skyscraper Awards - Silver Award Winner

    Silver Award Winner, awarded by Emporis