First there was Biopolis; then recently, Fusionopolis was added. Next year, Singapore's business park at One North will see its Media Park begin the first phase of development. Details of the park's masterplan will be released on Wednesday by Information, Communications and the Arts Minister Lee Boon Yang. The architect behind Media Park @ One North is Bernard Tschumi, a Swiss-French now based in New...
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Construction group Yongnam Holdings has won an S$88 million contract to build the Integrated Civic, Cultural, Retail and Entertainment Hub at one-north. The integrated hub is part of a 200-hectare development at Buona Vista known as Vista Xchange. The area aims to integrate living, working, relaxation and learning facilities when fully operational. Under the deal, Yongnam will construct the integrated...
Singapore's second major research and development (R&D) hub - Fusionopolis - was opened by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Friday, with the announcement that the Republic recorded the highest gross domestic expenditure in R&D last year. Fusionopolis stands side by side with Biopolis, the biomedical sciences hub. Mr Lee told the gathering of top international researchers that the current global...
Beijing has "The Bird's Nest". Singapore's Esplanade is sometimes referred to as "The Durians". Now, meet "The Egg" - Singapore's new S$20m venue for arts performances. The oval-shaped Genexis Theatre is sandwiched between two office buildings at Fusionopolis at one-north, an upcoming R&D hub in Singapore. It is the first theatre built by JTC, Singapore's largest industrial landlord. JTC's Assistant...
JTC Corporation has announced the ten winning entries, selected from close to 1,600 submissions, for the contest to name the buildings at Fusionpolis. The online contest was held between November 2007 and January this year, and the winners – consisting of students, executives and a homemaker – will each bag a S$1,000 cash prize. Fusionopolis is styled as a hub for cutting-edge research in infocomm,...
Construction of Phase 2B of Fusionopolis has begun with the ground-breaking ceremony for a 15-storey building called Solaris. It is being developed by Soilbuild Group - the first private sector developer at Fusionopolis cluster at one-north. Its $148-million new building will cover :an estimated gross floor area of 540,000 square feet and is slated for completion in 2010. It will house research...
Singapore is seeing an overwhelming demand for research and development space, particularly from the info-communication, media and science sectors. So to meet the growing need, the government said it will expand the Fusionopolis cluster at one-north. This was revealed at the ground-breaking ceremony of Phase 2B of the development on Friday. The ground-breaking marks the start of Phase 2B of...
Unique mixed development of 334 residential apartments, 32 “SOHO-style” apartments, 100,000sqft of retail space and a 370-unit hotel. Strategically located on North Buona Vista Road, at the confluence of the East-West MRT Line (Buona Vista MRT Station) and the future Circle Line (one-north MRT Station). Situated next to Rochester Park, planned $660 million lifestyle hub by Capitaland and Rock...
Location: One North, Buona Vista (District 5) Tenure: 99 years leasehold Year of Completion: 2009 Development: 2 blocks of residential cum SOHO layout apartment with retails shops on ground floor Total Units: 405 Unit Types (approx size): 1 bedroom ~ 560 sqft 2 bedroom ~ 980 - 1,250 sqft 2 + 1 ~ 1,100 - 1,450 sqft 3 bedroom ~ 1,300 - 1,700 sqft 3 + 1 study ~ 1,400 sqft 4 bedroom ~ 1,600 sqft Penthouse ~...