November 29, 2009 | Broadcast News

An entry for the WorldArchitectureNews.com Award for the Commercial Sector, this project by Forum Architects involved adding a new office tower extension to an existing high rise office tower at 78 Shenton Way. The existing building comprises a 34-storey tower sitting on a large 3-storey podium linked to a 11-decks multi storey carpark. The existing complex has site coverage of 65 %, leaving little space for the new tower without tearing down part of the existing building to make space.

In what will probably be emblematic of future expansion proposals to be seen in an increasingly dense and high-rise Singapore, the architects had allowed for the continuous usage of the existing building throughout the duration of the new structure’s construction. Did I hear someone say “limited undeveloped land” ?

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JJ is the co-founder of 5ft Creatives and is presently enrolled as a graduate student at the Yale School of Architecture.