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CapitaGreen
CapitaGreen, also known as Market Street Tower, is an office tower located in Raffles Place, Singapore. The building was designed by Toyo Ito and completed in 2014. With a height of , it is one of the List of tallest buildings in Singapore#Tallest buildings, tallest skyscrapers in Singapore. Architecture The CapitaGreen building was designed to be "like a plant growing towards the sun", with a façade that incorporates living plants. The rooftop garden, known as the "Sky Forest", has 40 different kinds of tree and shrub. The rooftop garden features a 45m-high (150ft) windcatcher structure, designed to look like flower petals, that captures cool fresh air and channels it into the office floors. Awards CapitaGreen won the 2015 CTBUH Skyscraper Award for Best Tall Building in the Asia and Australasia Region. See also * List of tallest buildings in Singapore References CapitaLand Skyscraper office buildings in Singapore Office buildings completed in 2014 2014 establishm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Tallest Buildings In Singapore
The city-state of Singapore has over 9,000 completed high-rises, the majority located in the Downtown Core, the city centre of Singapore. In the city, there are 96 skyscrapers. The Guoco Tower currently holds the title of tallest building in Singapore. It stands at 283.7m (931 ft), exempted from the height restriction of 280m in the Central Business District. A supertall tower will be built at the current AXA Tower site in future, standing at 305m. Singapore's history of skyscrapers began with the 1939 completion of the 17-storey Cathay Building. The structure was, at the time of its completion, the tallest building in Southeast Asia; it was superseded by the Asia Insurance Building in 1954, which remained the tallest in Singapore for more than a decade. Singapore went through a major building boom in the 1970s and 1980s that resulted from the city's rapid industrialisation. During this time OUB Centre (present-day One Raffles Place) became the tallest building in the ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
