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Encyclopedia > One Raffles Quay
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One Raffles Quay
Location Raffles Quay, Downtown Core, Singapore
Construction period 2003 - 2006
Primary usage Office
Opening date 2006
Structural height 245m, 804 ft (North Tower); 140m, 459 ft (South Tower)
Floor count 50 (North Tower); 29 (South Tower) and 2 basements
Owner Cheung Kong, Hongkong Land and Keppel Land
Management Cheung Kong, Hongkong Land and Keppel Land
Developer Cheung Kong, Hongkong Land and Keppel Land
Architect Kohn Pedersen Fox and Architects 61
Main contractor Obayashi
Website www.orq.com.sg

One Raffles Quay is an office building complex located at Raffles Place within the Downtown Core, the central business district of Singapore. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1200x1600, 672 KB) One Raffles Quay. ... The Downtown Core is technically an urban planning area in the city-state of Singapore which surrounds the mouth of the Singapore River, and is part of the Central Area, Singapores central business district. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... OFFICE WORK IS SHITE!! NEVER WORK IN ONE! end of. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Cheung Kong Holdings Limited SEHK: 0001 is the flagship of the Cheung Kong Group, headquartered in Hong Kong, and one of Hong Kongs leading multi-national conglomerates. ... The Landmark, properties owned by Hongkong Land in Central, undergoing renovation The Hongkong Land Company, Limited SGX: H78 (branded as Hongkong Land, 置地 in Chinese) is the property development arm of Jardines. ... Cheung Kong Holdings Limited SEHK: 0001 is the flagship of the Cheung Kong Group, headquartered in Hong Kong, and one of Hong Kongs leading multi-national conglomerates. ... The Landmark, properties owned by Hongkong Land in Central, undergoing renovation The Hongkong Land Company, Limited SGX: H78 (branded as Hongkong Land, 置地 in Chinese) is the property development arm of Jardines. ... Cheung Kong Holdings Limited SEHK: 0001 is the flagship of the Cheung Kong Group, headquartered in Hong Kong, and one of Hong Kongs leading multi-national conglomerates. ... The Landmark, properties owned by Hongkong Land in Central, undergoing renovation The Hongkong Land Company, Limited SGX: H78 (branded as Hongkong Land, 置地 in Chinese) is the property development arm of Jardines. ... The architectural firm of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) was founded in 1976 by A. Eugene Kohn, William Pedersen, and Sheldon Fox. ... Obayashi Corporation ) (TYO: 1802 ) is a major Japanese construction company. ... OFFICE WORK IS SHITE!! NEVER WORK IN ONE! end of. ... For other uses, see Building (disambiguation). ... Raffles Place is the financial heart of Singapore. ... The Downtown Core is technically an urban planning area in the city-state of Singapore which surrounds the mouth of the Singapore River, and is part of the Central Area, Singapores central business district. ... A Central business district (CBD) or downtown is a commercial heart of a city. ...


Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, the building consists of two office towers. The 50-storey North Tower will have a height of 245 metres on completion, while the 29-storey South Tower will have a height of 140 metres. The total floor area of the office towers combined is 148,000 square metres (1.59 million square feet). The complex incorporates a podium block, a hub car park and a 4,180 square meter (45,000 square feet) subterranean retail mall which will be linked to the Raffles Place MRT Station. The building has been completed in the third quarter of 2006 with tenants already occupying the South Tower. Barclays Bank occupies the top floors of the South Tower, with ABN Amro, UBS and Fitness First being the anchor tenants in the North Tower. The architectural firm of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) was founded in 1976 by A. Eugene Kohn, William Pedersen, and Sheldon Fox. ... The Eiffel Tower Fire-observation watchtower in Kostroma, Russia. ... A podium is a platform that is used to raise something to a short distance above its surroundings. ... Subterranean can also refer to something below the Earths surface Subterranean was an album released by Swedish heavy metal band In Flames in 1995. ... A shopping mall (or simply mall), shopping center, or shopping arcade is a building or set of buildings that contain stores, and has interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from store to store. ... Exterior view of Raffles Place MRT Station Ticketing faregates in Raffles Place South Bound Train platform at Raffles Place Station Raffles Place MRT Station (EW14/NS26) is a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) interchange station on the North South Line and the East West Line in Singapore. ... Barclays Bank headquarters One Churchill Place, Canary Wharf Barclays plc (LSE: BARC, NYSE: BCS, TYO: 8642 ) is the fourth largest bank in the United Kingdom. ... ABN AMRO (Euronext: AAB, (NYSE: ABN)) is the largest bank in the Netherlands and has operations all over the world, its history going back to 1824. ... UBS can refer to: UBS AG, a banking group Unbundled Bitstream Services United Building Society - the name of several financial institutions in different countries around the world. ... Fitness First is a chain of health clubs that claims to be the largest in the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. ...


Facts

  • This tower is aligned in a north-west direction, such that it sits across the existing MRT line which cuts through the site diagonally below it.
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