Beach Road Singapore development, Downtown building images, Eco-quarter architecture design
Singapore Development : Beach Road Buildings
Beach Road District property design by Foster + Partners Architects
14 Sep 2007
New mixed-use district, Beach Road
Architects: Foster + Partners
International Architecture Competition win
image : Foster + Partners
Beach Road District Singapore
Foster + Partners have won an international competition to design a highly sustainable mixed-use scheme for Beach Road in Singapore.
Occupying an entire city block between the Marina Center and the Civic District, the scheme will create a 150,000 square meter eco-quarter in downtown Singapore that continues the Singaporean ideal of the ‘city in a garden’ with its lush planting and sky gardens.
A generous canopy protects the public realm at ground level, buffering the spaces beneath from the extremes of the tropical climate. Above the canopy rises a vertical city of clustered Developments.
images : Foster + Partners
The scheme incorporates commercial, residential, retail and two high end hotels, as well as a direct ‘green’ link to an MRT station. Offering a light and comfortable environment, Beach Road will provide an exemplar sustainable quarter for Singapore. The design has the potential to achieve the Green Mark Platinum Rating.
The canopy is articulated by ribbon-forms that flex above the primary circulation routes and public spaces and dip near the edges – reflecting the changes of use beneath it. The ribbons rise up the exposed east and west elevations of the Developments where they form a series of vertical louvres.
These filter the sun and provide a framework for the planting which will transform the Developments into a series of vertically linked green spaces. The buildings’ forms and slanted facades are oriented to catch the prevailing winds and direct air flow down to cool the ground level spaces.”
Beach Road Singapore – images / information from Foster + Partners 2007
Singapore Development architect : Norman Foster of Foster + Partners
Location: Asia Square, Singapore, south east Asia
Architecture in Singapore
Contemporary Architecture in Singapore – architectural selection below:
Singapore Architectural Designs – chronological list
Supreme Law Court of Singapore
Design: Foster + Partners
Supreme Law Court of Singapore
Raffles Hotel Singapore Restoration, 1 Beach Road
Design: Aedas
image courtesy of architecture office
Raffles Hotel
Founders Memorial
Design: Cox Architecture
image courtesy of architects office
Founders Memorial
Marina Bay Sands – Hotel & Casino
Design: Moshe Safdie and Associates with Aedas Architects
Marina Bay Sands
Architecture Walking Tours by e-architect
Singapore Arts Center – now called Esplanade Theatres on the Bay
Design: Michael Wilford & Partners with DP Architects
Singapore Arts Center
UOB Plaza One
Design: Tange Associates – Kenzo Tange
UOB Plaza One
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