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Redevelopment of Faber House

The redevelopment of Faber House is a striking new project on Orchard Road’s most prominent junction. The mixed-use development comprises an 18-storey hotel with commercial and retail spaces.

Acting as a gateway to the Somerset precinct, it presents a memorable image to the bustling Cairnhill intersection with a 15-storey cascading waterfall and cliff-like, verdant vertical landscape set into the façade, visually extending the green terraces of WOHA’s neighbouring development Design Orchard. The innovative and unique vertical landscape, with pavilions, staircases and activities connects all the hotel levels.

The lower levels of the development make a major contribution to the public realm via new public spaces, gardens and facilities. The Urban Verandah, a fully public space at the third level, will host art and design programming and facilitates future connections to surrounding developments. Lifestyle banking, food and beverage, and retail stores complete the public space facilities.

The hotel experience starts at the 5th level with a lobby adjoining a sky terrace and infinity pool looking over Orchard Road. Above, naturally-ventilated guestroom circulation flows around the vertical landscape, leading to compact but elegant rooms. The hotel is crowned by a rooftop bar and restaurant.

  • Client

    UOL Property Investments Pte Ltd

  • Location
    230 Orchard Road, Singapore 238854
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  • Status

    Under construction

  • Design Inception

    January 2018

  • Completion

    April 2026

  • Type

    Commercial, Hospitality, Interiors

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The Reserve Residences

The Reserve Residences is a nature-inspired, nature-positive development and the new southern gateway to the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, Singapore’s largest surviving primary rainforest. It integrates residences, serviced residences, retail and community spaces with a bus interchange and is directly connected underground to the Beauty World MRT station.

The design stacks various uses vertically, creating multiple ground levels with public and resident amenities, gardens and facilities. This strategy multiplies community spaces throughout the development, providing high-density, high-amenity live-work-play-learn spaces embedded in lush sky greenery.

The expansive and diverse landscaping connects to the greenery of the surrounding nature reserves and extends the natural forest into the urban fabric. It enlarges the nature reserve’s ecological capacity and strengthens the region’s biodiversity.

The facade, reminiscent of the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve’s picturesque re-wilded quarries, blends stone walls with hanging gardens around the development’s perimeter, evoking a sense of place while shading the building interiors. Passive strategies (natural ventilation, daylighting, sunshading, breezeways and landscaping) in combination with active strategies (hybrid cooling, HVLS fans) create a comfortable environment and reduce energy consumption.

The residences are tranquil havens clustered to form ‘Sky Villages’ amidst the highrise greenery. These elevated neighbourhoods encourage residents to get to know each other and create their own close-knit micro-communities within the development.

  • Client

    FE Landmark Pte Ltd

  • Location
    5-23 Jalan Anak Bukit, Singapore 589603
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  • Status

    Under construction

  • Design Inception

    August 2021

  • Completion

    July 2027

  • Type

    Commercial, Competition, Interiors, Mixed-Use, Residential High-Rise, Residential Mid-Rise

  • System

    Social

  • Gross Floor Area

    103,453.72 sqmm2

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NS Square

NS Square will replace the existing Float @ Marina Bay as an event venue featuring a National Service-themed gallery, community sports facilities and a public waterfront promenade.

A new permanent stage deck will replace the existing floating platform, with a grandstand of 30,000 seats curving around the stage to provide an uninterrupted line-of-sight as well as bring spectators closer to the ‘action’. The space can be configured for events of different scales and types, such as concerts, performances, sporting activities and competitions. When not in use for events, the stage will be transformed into multi-purpose space for community activities. The public can enjoy a new waterfront promenade in front of the stage that will form part of the continuous loop around Marina Bay.

Leveraging on the unique waterfront location, NS Square will feature a water sports facility to support dragon boating, canoeing and kayaking. There will also be a swimming pool and water play areas for the public to enjoy. The development will incorporate a gallery that showcases Singapore’s National Service story in a mix of open and enclosed exhibition spaces.

NS Square will be the central focus Singapore’s new downtown and reinforces its identity  as a vibrant, resilient and sustainable city state.

  • Client

    Ministry of National Development (MND) and the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF)

  • Location
    Marina Bay, Singapore
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  • Status

    Under construction

  • Design Inception

    January 2020

  • Type

    Civic / Institutional, Commercial, Cultural, Exhibition, Interiors, Masterplan / Conceptual, Mixed-Use

  • System

    Ecological, Economic, Social

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Forbes Residences

Applecross is known for quiet leafy streets and neighbourhood charm. Inspired by its surroundings, this project does not eat up the leafy, green suburbs. The design keeps everything that is charming about Applecross – the Jacarandas dripping with purple flowers, the beautiful gardens, the backyards and barbecue pits – and envisages the building as an environment, creating gardens that extend into the sky and a seamless connection between exterior and interior.

Forbes Residences is designed, not as a stand-alone urban object, but as a three-dimensional “vertical suburb” that contains liveable, generous homes, shared facilities, common spaces within gardens, natural light and fresh air that weave throughout every level. The building reads as four organically shaped towers, connected via a series of sky gardens. It is expressed as a landscape, with residences akin to villas within that landscape and a façade inspired by the limestone formations around the Swan River.

“Hanging gardens” drape the podium form and extend up the roof. They preserve the garden suburb quality, create greater privacy, frame views, and enhance sociability. They also perform meaningful environmental services that benefit not just the development site, but the district – reducing the heat island effect, reducing noise and dust, preventing glare, and providing a habitat for biodiversity.

When the Jacarandas are in bloom, the building will be covered in a canopy of vibrant purple flowers. The leafy greenery that characterises Applecross will flow seamlessly through the building, capturing the essence of the neighbourhood.

Forbes Residences is a next-generation residential project, a development that generates greater amenity along with its higher density. It is a building that enhances its environment, enriching the quality of life for all.

 

  • Client

    Mustera Property Group Ltd

  • Location
    Applecross, Western Australia
  • Status

    Under construction

  • Design Inception

    March 2018

  • Associate Architects

    MJA Studio & CAPA

  • Type

    Residential High-Rise

Singapore Institute of Technology

The SIT-Plot 1 campus is uniquely endowed with an existing secondary forest. The design capitalises on this green site asset by integrating its learning environments with biophilic indoor-outdoor tropical spaces. To forge an imageable “Campus-in-a-Park” identity, the academic blocks are organised as a chain of buildings encompassing the central forest courtyard that is transformed into an accessible Community Park. This serves as the heart of SIT, contributing to a strong sense of place that is characterised by memorable nodes for interaction, recreation and rejuvenation.

The design leverages on the site’s undulating terrain by creating two public ground levels that segregate vehicles from pedestrians, creating a people-friendly, car-lite campus. These fenceless, 24/7 publicly accessible ground levels are interconnected across the Punggol Digital District, linking shared carparks and a series of key public spaces.

SIT’s primary signature library building is strategically located at the prime intersection between New Punggol Road and the pedestrianised Campus Boulevard as a prominent urban landmark.

On the rooftops, photovoltaic panels are arrayed as a banner of sustainability over the entire campus. These serve as a key renewable energy source that powers SIT’s Multi-Energy Micro Grid located within Plot 1. Productivity features include precast facades and structural systems for the academic blocks and structural steel for the long span bridges.

  • Client

    Singapore Institute of Technology

  • Location
    11 New Punggol Road, Singapore 828616
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  • Status

    Under construction

  • Design Inception

    July 2017

  • Type

    Commercial, Educational, Interiors, Masterplan / Conceptual, Mixed-Use, Offices

  • Gross Floor Area

    121,580m2

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Punggol Digital District

Punggol Digital District (PDD) is planned as part of Singapore’s strategy to sustain long-term economic growth by creating new development areas island-wide, bringing jobs and social amenities closer to residents.

Situated in Punggol North, PDD is envisioned to be a vibrant and inclusive district underpinned by cutting-edge technology, as well as urban and social innovation which make everyday living more convenient and sustainable. As Singapore’s first Enterprise District, PDD will provide flexibility for the land use mix and scale to be curated at district-level, enabling deeper integration and synergy of different uses and spaces to realise the vision of the District. The District is also planned to be connected to the greater Punggol area, with a car-lite, green, and vibrant environment.

Punggol Digital District will be the first district to adopt an integrated masterplan approach that brings together a business park, a university and community facilities and transport infrastructure. The district-level planning approach creates synergies, optimises land use and catalyses community building. It also allows us to design and integrate innovative technological platforms and from the ground up, transforming the way people work, live, learn and play in an inclusive and sustainable environment.

  • Client

    JTC Corporation

  • Location
    Punggol Way, Singapore
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  • Status

    Under construction

  • Completion

    December 2022

  • Type

    Civic / Institutional, Commercial, Educational, Masterplan / Conceptual, Mixed-Use, Offices

  • Gross Floor Area

    500,000m2

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BRAC University

Sited on an urban lake, the vision is to present an innovative and sustainable inner city campus that exemplifies tropical design strategies in response to the hot, humid, monsoon climate of the Bangladesh region while demonstrating the sensitive integration of nature and architecture.

The design strategy is to create two distinct programmatic strata by floating the Academia above the lake and revealing a Campus Park below, reflecting the synergistic coexistence between mankind and mangrove. Through perforating the building form with breezeways, porous facades and garden terraces, and by sculpting the building section to direct breezes to sheltered gathering spaces, the campus is designed to breathe, with cross ventilation and indirect natural daylighting making tropical learning spaces without air-conditioning possible. Landscaping applied vertically and horizontally exemplifies the potential in multiplying greenery and open spaces within a dense, urban site and sets the direction that must be embraced to make Dhaka a modern, liveable, sustainable and humane city.

  • Client

    BRAC University

  • Location
    Bir Uttam Rafiqul Islam Avenue Merul Badda, Dhaka
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  • Status

    Under construction

  • Design Inception

    September 2011

  • Associate Architects

    J.A.Architects Ltd

  • Type

    Civic / Institutional, Educational, Interiors, Masterplan / Conceptual, Mixed-Use

  • Gross Floor Area

    88,210m2

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Ratings
Green Plot Ratio

130%

Civic Generosity Index

100%

Community Plot Ratio

250%

Ecosystem Contribution Index

60%

Self Sufficiency Index
Energy

25%

Food

0%

Water

20%

Green Plot Ratio

130%

Community Plot Ratio

250%

Civic Generosity Index

100%

Ecosystem Contribution Index

60%

Self Sufficiency Index
Energy

25%

Food

0%

Water

20%

Awards

2017

  • LafargeHolcim Awards Asia Pacific - Bronze Winner

    Awarded by LafargeHolcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction

The Tre Ver

The Tre Ver is a unique tropical residential living located at the riverfront, with multiple tiers of landscaped decks, pools and gardens. The development overlooks Kallang River and is an integral component in the rejuvenation of the Kallang River Masterplan. Organised to fit within the irregular-shaped plot, the development comprises of 729-units distributed across 5 tall blocks and 4 short blocks, above a 2 storey landscaped carpark podium.

The configuration and orientation of 5 tall blocks and 4 short blocks is designed to maximize river views. The design capitalizes the river and existing line of raintrees as a 200m long frontage and extends the blues and greens seamlessly into and up the development as a series of gardens, terraces, courtyards, pools and waterfalls, creating multiple amenity points in varying scales and characters.

The development is connected by 3 key amenity layers – Raintree Valley (2nd floor), Village Plaza (3rd floor) and Sky Loft (8th floor), providing amenities and gardens at the residents’ doorstep. The residential blocks continue the greenery vertically. The short blocks are designed with tiered contours planted with flowering and colourful shrubs and trees. The tall blocks contrast as orthogonal forms with sky gardens on every storey, terminating at both ends of the cross-ventilated lift lobby.

Overall, The Tre Ver is a building-as-garden with a variety of common spaces to promote vibrant communities, sustainable living and a distinctive home.

  • Client

    UVD (Projects) Pte Ltd

  • Location
    Block 60-76 Potong Pasir Avenue, Singapore
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  • Status

    Under construction

  • Completion

    September 2022

  • Type

    Residential High-Rise

  • Gross Floor Area

    57,630.49 sqmm2

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