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Nestled above four 250m tall towers, the curved accordion-shaped “horizontal skyscraper” of Raffles City Chongqing is set to open in 2019, revealed CapitaLand.
Dubbed The Conservatory, the sky bridge – which has a total height of more than 400m above sea level and a total gross floor area (GFA) of 10,000 sq m – features an observation deck, an infinity pool, sky gardens as well as a food and beverage zone. It will connect a total of six vertical towers – four at its base and two adjacent towers by cantilever bridges.
“Raffles City Chongqing is by far the largest and most complex integrated development that CapitaLand has undertaken. Erecting The Conservatory marks the culmination of five years of construction progress and a grand milestone in outlining Raffles City Chongqing’s image of a powerful sail surging forward, as it prepares to welcome the world in 2019,” said CapitaLand president and group CEO Lim Ming Yan.
“Some of the world’s most advanced construction and engineering techniques have been deployed to install this megastructure on Chaotianmen, known as the crown jewel of Chongqing. CapitaLand is proud to have achieved this phenomenal structural engineering breakthrough of connecting skyscrapers, and we will continue to stay ahead of the curve by breaking new grounds in real estate development.”
Designed by world-famous architect Moshe Safdie, Raffles City Chongqing is spread across a 9.2ha-site with a total construction floor area of 1.12 million sq m, as well as a GFA (excluding car park) of around 817,000 sq m.
The development by CapitaLand and Ascendas-Singbridge comprises a 230,000-sq m shopping mall, 1,400 residential apartments, 160,000-sq m of Grade A office space, a luxury hotel and Ascott Raffles City Chongqing serviced residence.
It is CapitaLand’s eighth Raffles City development in China. The seven others are located in Chengdu, Beijing, Ningbo, Hanzhou, Shanghai (with two Raffles developments) and Shenzhen.
Spanning about three million sq m, CapitaLand’s eight Raffles City developments in China are worth about S$13 billion when fully completed.
Romesh Navaratnarajah, Senior Editor at PropertyGuru, edited this story. To contact him about this or other stories, email romesh@propertyguru.com.sg
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