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CapitaGreen, the newest 40-storey Grade A office building in Singapore’s Central Business District (CBD), has obtained its Temporary Occupation Permit (TOP) last Thursday.
Its developers announced that 50.4 percent or 352,800 sq ft of its total net leasable area (NLA) of 700,000 sq ft has been taken up as of December 2014.
Insurance firm Catlin Asia Pacific is the latest multinational corporation (MNC) to take up residence at the building, in addition to other established global firms such as Jones Day, Jardine Lloyd Thompson, Cargill, Bordier & Cie (Singapore), as well as Fitness First, which will unveil an exclusive wellness facility for executives.
“As the newest gem in our portfolio of premium office properties, we are delighted to welcome the organisations who have chosen to make this their new office address,” said Wen Khai Meng, CEO of CapitaLand Singapore.
CapitaGreen’s notable features include a crown of tropical trees and a sculptural petalled funnel that leverages on the wind and distributes it throughout all levels via a hollow stem and an efficiently designed air-conditioning system. The building also sports a façade, where 55 percent of the perimeter is covered by living plants, reducing solar heat gain by up to 26 percent.
On top of that, it has the highest raised floor-to-ceiling height of 3.2 metres and biggest column-free floor plates measuring 22,000 sq ft in any CBD office building.
Jointly developed by CapitaLand, CapitaCommercial Trust CapitaCommercial Trust and Mitsubishi Estate Asia, CapitaGreen was designed by Toyo Ito, one of the winners of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize.
Image source: CapitaCommercial Trust
Muneerah Bee, Senior Journalist at PropertyGuru, edited this story. To contact her about this or other stories email muneerah@propertyguru.com.sg
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