Singapore, Republic of Singapore
“We envision this to be the new face of work – a face that engages its urban context and nature in a more subtle way,” states Formwerkz Architects.
Located in Singapore’s city center, the Garden Curtain Wall building by Formwerkz Architects is a 6-story corner office development that interrogates and exploits the limit of envelope control in urban sites to re-examine the ubiquitous glass curtain wall, commonly associated with offices.
Formwerkz Architects’ Garden Curtain Wall has recently been awarded a 2022 International Architecture Awards Honorable Mention by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
A golden expanded mesh shields this 6-story glass block and the interspersed garden strips along its periphery.
These veiled gardens mediate the elements and the city with the office interior.
The thin veil that maintains the street envelope is occasionally punctured with openings that frame the activities within the series of staggered work pods of varying configurations.
These pods are extensions of an otherwise column-free, open-plan space within the inner glass volume.
The service and circulation core line the side of the abutting party wall.
The programs that can be accommodated within these pods range from intimate discussion pods to brainstorming rooms to a small amphitheater loft.
The roofs of these attached pods become garden terraces for the floor above.
Project: Garden Curtain Wall
Architects: Formwerkz Architects LLP.
General Contractor: Techkon Pte Ltd.
Client: Chan Brothers Travel Pte Ltd.
Photographers: Fabian Ong
