The formal organisation for the development of Suntec City resembles an open palm: five office towers – four 45-storey and one 18-storey – establish the fingers and an international convention centre, the wrist. These six structures are connected programmatically at their bases by a fourstorey retail podium and are set centripetally about a 16,000sqm circular fountain that operates as the site’s focal point and unifies the complex’s many parts. Here, the waters flow inward to the centre of the site’s open palm, a symbol of good luck and prosperity. This project was designed in collaboration with Tsao & McKown Architects. Project Team: Francis Lee, Gan Eng Oon, Ti Lian Seng, Angelene Chan, Wu Tzu Chiang, Chin Thoe Chong, Vikas M Gore, Lesley Lim, Leo Mauricio and David Harbord
Suntec City
1997