One Raffles Quay () is an office
building
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complex located at
Raffles Place
Raffles Place is the centre of the Financial District of Singapore and is located south of the River, mouth of the Singapore River. It was first planned and developed in the 1820s as Commercial Square to serve as the hub of the commercial zone o ...
, the
central business district
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of
Singapore
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.
Designed by
Kohn Pedersen Fox
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) is an American architecture firm that provides architecture, interior, programming and master planning services for clients in both the public and private sectors. KPF is one of the largest architecture firms in ...
, One Raffles Quay (ORQ) consists of the 50-storey North Tower and the 29-
storey
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T ...
South Tower, totalling about 1.3 million square feet of office space. The building was purpose-built for banking and financial corporations in August 2006.
ORQ is home to international banks such as
Barclays Capital,
UniCredit,
Credit Suisse
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,
Deutsche Bank AG
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,
Societe Generale Private Banking and
UBS
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, headquarters of
cryptocurrency
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exchange
crypto.com
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History
The company was initially founded in Hong Kon ...
as well as professional services firms
Thomson Reuters
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Thomson Reuters was created by the Thomson Corpora ...
and
Ernst & Young
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and
QBE Insurance. It also has amenities and is directly linked to
Raffles Place MRT station via a Retail Link, and can be accessed from
Downtown MRT station via underground link too.
See also
*
Tall buildings in Singapore
*
List of tallest buildings in the world
This list of tallest buildings includes skyscrapers with continuously occupiable floors and a height of at least . Non-building structures, such as towers, are not included in this list (for these, see ''List of tallest buildings and structur ...
References
External links
{{Singapore skyscrapers
Downtown Core (Singapore)
Skyscraper office buildings in Singapore
Office buildings completed in 2006
Kohn Pedersen Fox buildings