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BUILDING DESIGN

The seven towers making up the programme visually 'grow' from sunken private gardens within the site landscape. The lower floors kink in to highlight the point where buildings meet the ground, enabling a greater open area and the creation of private gardens, which are unique for developments of this scale and density.

The towers themselves are subdivided into petals according to the number of residential units on each floor. The petals are expressed in three dimensions thanks to vertical cuts which give definition to the building's façades and, at the same time, allow for cross ventilation of most of the flats. The buildings culminate at the top with a series of fingers stepped at different heights (the highest is 36 storeys), which blend the transition between the architectural fabric and the sky.

The buildings face each other and the road at different angles creating visual diversity, enhanced from within by the careful use of balconies and façade panelling. The buildings offer a total floor space of 220,000m², with a basement area of 70,000m².

Together they will hold approximately 1,500 units ranging from two to four bedrooms, as well as over 30 of both garden units and penthouses. Amenities will include two large swimming pools, children and relaxation pools, two clubhouses and a series of party houses -- as well as outdoor fitness facilities.

Having been designing in Singapore for ten years, the partners-in-charge of the project -- the 2004 Pritzker Prize-winning Zaha Hadid and architectural theorist Patrik Schumacher -- say the Farrer Road design is the result of the firm's decade-long research into the urban fabric of the city.

"The seven-tower development on one of Singapore's most prominent sites represents further exploration into the tower typology and our studies into organisational systems and growth in the natural world," says Hadid.

Singapore architecture and engineering firm RSP was also involved in the design.

ARCHITECT
• Zaha Hadid, founding partner of Zaha Hadid Architects, was awarded the
Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004 and is internationally known for her
built, theoretical and academic work.

• Each of her dynamic and innovative projects builds on over thirty years of
revolutionary experimentation and research in the interrelated fields of
urbanism, architecture and design.

• Zaha Hadid consistently pushes the boundaries of architecture and urban
design. Her work experiments with new spatial concepts intensifying
existing urban landscapes in the pursuit of a visionary aesthetic that
encompasses all fields of design

• Best known for her seminal built works (Vitra Fire Station, Rosenthal Centre
for Contemporary Art, BMW Central Building, Phaeno Science Center,
and MAXXI: Italian National Museum of XXI Arts)

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