Singapore | The Scotts Tower | 153 M | 36 FLOORS

[jrickw]

This is downright poetic. And, as a friend of mine observed, pure bauhaus for the 21st century:



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OMA designs Residential Tower in Singapore
Far East Organization, Singapore’s largest private development company, has commissioned the Office for Metropolitan Architecture for OMA’s first architectural project in Singapore – a 36-storey residential high-rise. The 153 meter tall tower will be located at the intersection of Scotts Road and Cairnhill Road, in close proximity to Orchard Road, Singapore’s famous shopping and lifestyle street. With 20,000m² of built floor area, the building will provide 68 high-end apartment units with panoramic views. The design strategically maneuvers within the highly regulated building environment to maximize the full potential of the site: Four individual apartment towers are vertically offset from one another and suspended from a central core. The skyline of floating towers directly relates to the surrounding building volumes and explores the most attractive views towards the city center and an extensive green zone to the north. The lifted apartment towers reduce the building’s footprint to a minimum; the liberated ground level provides communal leisure activities embedded in the tropical landscape. “We are thrilled with the opportunity to create an outstanding project in partnership with OMA. The design reflects the new vibrancy and vitality of Orchard Road and Singapore. OMA with its extensive international experience will certainly bring a new perspective to luxury urban living and add to the cosmopolitan flavor of our development,” says Far East Organization Chief Operating Officer, Property Sales, Chia Boon Kuah. “The collaboration with the Far East Organization is an exciting opportunity to further engage Asia,” says Ole Scheeren, Partner of OMA. "The design vertically redistributes the floor area in four alternating towers to create a skyscraper in which architectural and urbanistic concerns merge with mechanisms that create added value. The architecture, in this sense, goes beyond form and generates symbiotic qualities”.

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Clarification from OMA - The Singapore tower is a design by OMA Partner Ole Scheeren. Unlike most architecture firms we are a collaborative office which works as a Partnership, Singapore Scotts Towers is by Ole Scheeren.

[Steely Dan]

i've just fallen in love.

[Jularc]

That building looks so cool!

[-GR2NY-]

This thing is absolutely terrible and I feel that I completely hate it, but at the same time I'm incredibly attracted to it. Reminds me of a certain ex....

[WonderlandPark]

OMG sweet. Can I have one for Portland?

[colemonkee]

Wow. A great design, and an engineering marvel if built. I'm not sure I'd want to live there, but wow.

[WonderlandPark]

Originally Posted by colemonkee

Wow. A great design, and an engineering marvel if built. I'm not sure I'd want to live there, but wow.

Actually, it is not that big an engineering feat, it is using a concrete core to support a building, which is done all the time. In this case, they just took off some of the bottom floors. There are many cases in which the core bears nearly all the weight of a tower, and it is just skin that reaches to the ground level.

[Aleks]

it kinda reminds meeh of this building except its 4 boxes instead of 1 and glassier-er

[Lecom]

^except the new design lacks the overbearing instability illusion of that Seattle tower

Great design, but too bad about the extensive lobby. Making most of the reclaimed space open would've made a greater statement. Otherwise, technically speaking, what's the point of the suspended apartments? (besides the gimmick)

[cur_sed]

Otherwise, technically speaking, what's the point of the suspended apartments? (besides the gimmick)

well, it's damn pretty :p
Plus, this way you don't pay to build less profitable lower level apartments - everyone has great views.

[wrendog]

I guess I'll be in the minority here... hate it.

[M.K.]

Four individual apartment towers are vertically offset from one another and suspended from a central core. The skyline of floating towers directly relates to the surrounding building volumes and explores the most attractive views towards the city center and an extensive green zone to the north.

That description is really design task. I like it. At one side they just forgotten the ground floors in 4 towers and translate them not equally in z coordinate. That makes it different, but on other side more engineering work for the concrete core structure, more work and money for less useful space to have an odd design with use empty air space and volume. It is cubic, some bauhaus resemblance, but with a bit more.

HAS a DIAGRAM Already here included?????????????????????????

[RLS_rls]

Lecom, you have a good point. There is no real need for the towers to be supported by the core in that design. But maybe that's the problem with alot of North American architecture, we start to worry if it is or isn't proving some point. There's no need for this tower to look like that, but it can be done, can't it? And it's nothing extraordinarily expensive or pointless is it? Usually when something like this is presented on this side of the globe it's just brushed off as unnecessary. Maybe I just yearn for the hubristic lavishness of 1970s American architecture!

I wonder if they'll put like cloaking technology on the bottom of the four apartment 'towers' so that they reflect the sky instead of just being bare concrete. That way it'd seem like they're t...o...tal...ly....g....on..e...!...?

[Derek]

very cool

[SFUVancouver]

In a roundabout way it reminds me of a building here in Vancouver.



Formerly the Westcoast Transmission Bldg, then the Duke Energy Bldg, it was converted to condos and is now, unfortunately, known as Qube.

[JBinCalgary]

coooool

[MolsonExport]

what a sexy building.

[tdawg]

i like it.

[Alliance]

This building is a superb concept, but I'm worried about the design of the core...it looks...sad.

[jackie60]

at first glance i thought "wow" but after looking at it and putting myself inside the apartments, i don't know if i would ever open the window treatments on the sides.
otherwise i hope it gets built, i would love to see it.