Completing a vibrant skyscraper in Singapore
Danish firm BIG and Italian-Italian architecture firm CRA- Carlo Ratti Associati have completed construction of a 280-meter skyscraper in Singapore’s bustling central business district.
Design Features
The mixed-use skyscraper consists of 51 floors, and is named after the CapitaSpring.
It sparkles through its dynamic interplay of perpendicular lines, a series of lush spiral gardens, lush greenery, and contrasting textures, providing a “smooth transition between garden and city”.
With a total area of 93,000 square meters, the skyscraper program consists of first-class luxury office spaces.
In addition to the Citadines serviced residence, a hawker center, restaurants and public spaces,
as well as abundant sky gardens and a rooftop promenade.
For the first time, Bjarke Ingels Group and CRA revealed their conceptual design in 2018.
The skyscraper has also been opened for use, after four years of construction for leading real estate firms in Asia,
CapitaLand Development (CLD), CapitaLand Integrated Commercial Trust and Mitsubishi Estate.
The CapitaSpring is currently among the tallest towers in the city and was designed by BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group and CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati –
the two firms have collaborated on their architecture, public space and digital user experience.
The skyscraper is located on the site of a former public car park and hawker Centre,
and is added to the Singapore skyline as a new soaring oasis that complements the city’s pioneering vertical urbanization.
Vertical exploration of tropical urbanization
Core has sought to continue Singapore’s pioneering vertical urbanization with its diverse neighborhood,
280 meters high of places to work, live and play indoors and outdoors.
The design studio decided to make the design a vertical exploration of tropical urban sprawl.
This is due to the uniqueness of the civilization in Singapore, whether it is very dense or green.
The street is also closed at the row, to form a new linear park and public square.
The vertical garden in the middle of the tower forms a soaring promenade that rises between tropical tree trunks and canopies.
Moreover, the urban jungle may feed all the restaurants and cafes in the building
and allow visitors to enjoy the beauty of the summit.
Capitaspring is a vision of a future in which city, countryside, culture and nature can coexist,
and urban landscapes can expand without restrictions to the vertical dimension.
The skyscraper also offers multiple heights, and its bold vertical elements
that make up the exterior of the building are separated to allow glimpses
into the green oases that bloom from the base, core and rooftop “sky garden”.
Described as “an element to enhance Singapore’s reputation as a garden city,”
the skyscraper features more than 80,000 plants.
Plus a green plot ratio of over 1:1.4, which translates to a total landscaping area of over 8,300 square meters (90,000 square feet), equivalent to 140% of the site area.
Seamless transition between park and city
The building appears as a seamless transition between the park and the city.
With this linear park area and public space, the tower creates a
“breathing green space” in the high-density CBD for tenants and adjacent pedestrians.
This park area also includes meandering garden paths that create natural entrances to the park area,
called the Town Room – an 18 meter wide open space at the foot of the tower.
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