STATUS
COMPLETED
CLIENT
CapitaLand Group
TYPOLOGY
Work, Hospitality
SIZE M2/FT2
93,351 / 1,004,830
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The 280 m tall CapitaSpring is located in the heart of Singapore’s financial district on the site of a 1980s car complex and a hawkers market. As the second tallest tower in Singapore, the 93,000 m2, 51 story mixed-use development continues Singapore’s pioneering vertical urbanism by creating a diverse neighborhood of places to work, live, and play.
Entirely defined by zoning rules, street walls, and setback requirements, the volume is a complex composition of polygonal shapes. The program, which includes premium Grade A office space, Citadines serviced residences, retail, and public spaces, is similarly strictly defined with offices sitting on top of residences that in turn rest on a podium of food markets and parking.
Due to the unique character of Singapore’s urbanism – both very dense and verdant – BIG pursued the design challenge as a vertical exploration of tropical urbanism, reinforcing Singapore’s reputation as a garden city. The building’s recognizable exterior façade consists of vertical elements that are pulled apart to allow glimpses into the green oases blooming from the base, core and rooftop. A dynamic interplay of orthogonal lines and lush greenery presents itself in the contrasting textures of steel and glass, interweaved with tropical vegetation.
Basement
— The ground floor area is constrained by the dimensions of the site, tower core, parking, MEP plantrooms and the hawker market.
Ground Floor
— The lobbies are on the ground floor while main retail frontage is along Market Street. Setbacks accommodate pedestrian walkways and a public City Room with through-block passage.
Hawker Market
— Two levels of hawker food market are located along the narrow tail end of the site.
Serviced Residences
— 8 floors of serviced residences sit above the parking podium with access to generous outdoor garden spaces.
Offices
— 29 floors of continuous, efficient, and repetitive office floors sit above the serviced residences.
The Green Spring
— Office block is lifted to maximize commercial value. Lush green connections between the offices and residences contain different types of amenities for life, work, and play.
Roof Garden & Amenities
— Centralized MEP plantrooms are located on a single floor under a rooftop restaurant. The restaurant is connected to a roof garden that spirals up in a continuous and accessible loop.
Facades
— Vertical extrusions mounted to the exterior of the façade as mullions run continuously from top to bottom of the building, creating pockets that reveal greenery and social activities inside.
At the ground floor, visitors are met by a new linear public rainforest plaza and park. Meandering garden paths and covered passages create natural entryways into the City Room, a 19 m high generous open space at the foot of the tower.
Nestled on the second and third levels of CapitaSpring is the new hawker market with 56 food stalls offering local delicacies and an abundance of lunch options for the CBD’s workers.
The first eight floors of the tower contain 299 serviced residences with a wide range of amenities – a swimming pool, jacuzzi, jogging track, gym, social kitchen, lounges, and barbeque pits.
A vertical park is inserted in the middle of the tower in the form of a spiraling promenade ascending among tropical tree trunks and canopies.
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"As someone with Singaporean heritage, I have been honored and humbled by the opportunity to contribute to the ongoing evolution of architecture in Singapore as a distinct blending between the contemporary and the tropical. In our design, this manifests as a seamless transition between the garden and the city, articulated in the facades and a series of lush spiraling gardens connecting between various programs and amenities."
The top 29 floors of the tower offer premium office spaces with panoramic views of the Singapore River and Marina Bay. At the core of the building between the hardscapes of the offices and residences are four connected levels of organic softscape, called the Green Oasis – a mesmerizing 30 m open-air garden for work, casual strolls, relaxation, exercise and events.
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CapitaSpring’s rooftop garden is home to 1-Arden Food Forest. Currently, over 150 species of fruits, vegetables, herbs, and flowers, are grown across five thematic plots to supply the building’s restaurants with fresh greens.
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AWARDS
International High-Rise Award 2024/25
FIABCI World Prix d'Excellence Awards, Silver Award in Mixed Use Category, 2024
ArchDaily Office Building of the Year, 2023
ULI Asia Pacific Awards for Excellence, 2023
CTBUH 2023 Awards of Excellence: Best Tall Building Asia & Best Tall Building 200–299 Meters, 2023
World Architecture Festival Honorable Mention
International Building Beauty Prize, 2023
President's Design Award 2023: Design of the Year, 2023
International High Rise Award, 2023
Structural Steel Excellence Awards, Structural Steel Project of the Year, 2023
DFA Design for Asia Awards, Silver Award, 2023
ASEAN Energy Awards, 1st Runner-up in the Energy Efficient Building – New and Existing Building category, 2023
Landscape Architecture Awards, Outstanding Award, 2023
GBC-BCA Leadership in Sustainability Awards, 2023
MIPIM ASIA’s Silver Award, Best Mixed-Use Development, 2022
President's Design Awards, 2022
SILA Singapore Landscape Architecture Awards, 2022
World Architectural Festival, Honorable Mention, 2022
COLLABORATORS
Carlo Ratti Associati
RSP Architects
Dragages Singapore
COEN
BIG Ideas
BIG Landscape
