This shall be the "official" thread of all things concerning the One Raffles Quay project, a bi-tower development under construction in Singapore. This development sits on the first site to be publicly sold in the new downtown, the first being allocated by the government for the building of One Marina Boulevard (formerly NTUC Centre).
The taller block, north tower, will reach 245 metres with 50 storeys, and be the fifth tallest in Singapore when it is completed by 2005. The second block, south tower, will be 140 metres tall with 28 storeys.
The developer is a joint venture between Hong Kong based Cheong Kong Holdings & HongKong Land and local developer Keppel Land.
The following are renderings of the project:
Early rendering by Meinhardt Private Ltd:
Latest rendering by Meinhardt Private Ltd:
By Keppel Land Ltd:
Currently, sub-structure work has just been completed by Bachy Soletanche Singapore. The following text is stated in their site:
"The site is being built on a geologically challanging area with at one end of the site a 40m layer of very soft Marine Clay overlaying hard S3 Bouldery Clay and the other only 15m of soft material before reaching the very hard bouldery clay. The foundations and basement is further complicated by having a underground railway running right across it, indeed the North Tower foundations stradle the tunnels.
Bachy Soletanche set to the task in September 2002 and are due to complete by the end of February 2003. Due to the nature of the ground, hard S3 bouldery clay, BSS called in several of our specialist operators from Hong Kong who are very experienced to heavy chiselling in similar ground conditions."
The following construction photos are also provided by Bachy Soletanche:
September 2002:
Three rigs working looking North
Looking South, Econ's pile test in foreground
November 2002:
General site view (One Marina Boulevard can be seen being built in the background)
Working on the MRT screen wall (One Marina Boulevard to the left)
The latest pictures of the construction status as of last month can be seen here at skycrapers.com, with some shots taken by me.
I will be uploading subsequent construction pictures for this month onwards in this thread. Stay tuned!
The taller block, north tower, will reach 245 metres with 50 storeys, and be the fifth tallest in Singapore when it is completed by 2005. The second block, south tower, will be 140 metres tall with 28 storeys.
The developer is a joint venture between Hong Kong based Cheong Kong Holdings & HongKong Land and local developer Keppel Land.
The following are renderings of the project:
Early rendering by Meinhardt Private Ltd:
Latest rendering by Meinhardt Private Ltd:
By Keppel Land Ltd:
Currently, sub-structure work has just been completed by Bachy Soletanche Singapore. The following text is stated in their site:
"The site is being built on a geologically challanging area with at one end of the site a 40m layer of very soft Marine Clay overlaying hard S3 Bouldery Clay and the other only 15m of soft material before reaching the very hard bouldery clay. The foundations and basement is further complicated by having a underground railway running right across it, indeed the North Tower foundations stradle the tunnels.
Bachy Soletanche set to the task in September 2002 and are due to complete by the end of February 2003. Due to the nature of the ground, hard S3 bouldery clay, BSS called in several of our specialist operators from Hong Kong who are very experienced to heavy chiselling in similar ground conditions."
The following construction photos are also provided by Bachy Soletanche:
September 2002:
Three rigs working looking North
Looking South, Econ's pile test in foreground
November 2002:
General site view (One Marina Boulevard can be seen being built in the background)
Working on the MRT screen wall (One Marina Boulevard to the left)
The latest pictures of the construction status as of last month can be seen here at skycrapers.com, with some shots taken by me.
I will be uploading subsequent construction pictures for this month onwards in this thread. Stay tuned!