Ocean Financial Centre (245m, 43 floors, due 2011)

[redstone]

Originally Posted by Cliff

Yeah, so squishy!

This building will make the greatest impact to the main Singapore skyline, so exciting!

First the twin UFOs, now the triplet sails?


There's a condo at Sentosa Cove in sail shapes too

[Excelsvr]

Which one?

[ddes]

Okays, I seem to be the only one who thinks the OFC will be like ORQ, nothing more than a plot-filler.

I'm still waiting for a new CBD development which will make me go WOW or Ooooooh. Bottomline, I'm still waiting for something truly iconic, a design which cannot be replicated, something really unique.

[Excelsvr]

I think OFC is slightly better that ORQ.

The design is not all boxy, but with curves and stuff.

[Baby]

Originally Posted by Excelsvr

I think OFC is slightly better that ORQ.

The design is not all boxy, but with curves and stuff.

I hate to say about OFC again, but it's really a copy cat of Sail. What a shame.

[Excelsvr]

Hehe.

Imitation is the greatest form of flattery

[ddes]

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Yes while true, is not good for our skyline...

I personally like ORQ, its simplicity in design just amazes me everytime I look at it, especially since that is the default building where Fireworks have been shooting from ever since it was completed.

Regarding the OFC, I'm prepared to be surprised.

[Excelsvr]

Yeah I don't like matching things too...

[Singapor3]

Hmm, it's 245m..

http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=...pore-singapore

[Excelsvr]

Cool! Smae height as The Sail!

[Pengui]

25th January 2008

Ocean Building is dramatically shorter now

[spikeshamz]

That was fast...

[Cliff]

What a neat demolition

[JoSin]

They have to do it fast...we are short of office buildings..sign..

[redstone]

Originally Posted by Excelsvr

Cool! Smae height as The Sail!

And same shape, colour too.

[RafflesCity]

Developers vie for top 'green' honours

Keppel Land wins its first platinum for Ocean Financial Centre, slated for completion in 2011

1 May 08



THE battle for the Green Mark platinum award is heating up.

Last year, City Developments fired the first salvo, claiming two of the seven platinums, the highest rating given out by the Building and Construction Authority for environmental friendliness.

But this year, rival developer Keppel Land has bagged its first platinum for Ocean Financial Centre, a massive 43-storey office block to be built on the site of the present Ocean Building and Ocean Towers. This is also the first given for an office tower, said Tan Swee Yiow, chief executive officer of Singapore Commercial at Keppel Land.

City Developments had won two platinums last year and three more this year - two condominium projects, Cliveden and Solitaire, and the Tampines Grande office building.

But because of its more complex energy needs, getting the Ocean Financial Centre certified platinum was more difficult than for a similar residential tower or commercial building, Mr Tan said in an interview.

'If you want to talk about energy savings, probably the easiest way is to build a lot of concrete walls up. But the challenge is how to make an iconic architectural statement and at the same time achieve energy savings,' he said.

The green features that helped Keppel Land clinch the platinum award could add '5 to 10 per cent' to development cost, said Mr Tan, declining to be more specific because tenders have yet to be called. While the features will not come cheap, Mr Tan said that 'at this moment we can't say that we can charge a premium for its greener features'.

'To us it's a necessity. This is a historical site, so it's very visible and the extra cost is justifiable. Our client mix will also appreciate the features,' he added.

The Ocean Financial Centre is slated for completion in 2011 and will offer 850,000 sq ft of prime office space. It will be a redevelopment of Ocean Building and Ocean Towers, now on the same site.

Ocean Building has already been torn down; some of the debris will be recycled for use in the new building. Ocean Towers will be demolished later to make way for a five-storey car park and grand plaza integrated into the entire Ocean Financial Centre complex.

Mr Tan said that among its extensive energy-saving features was a 400-sq-m roof-mounted solar panel array. Along with efficient lighting panels and air conditioning, this would save nine megawatt hours a year, enough to power a 50,000-sq-m office space.

The complex will also have a roof-top garden and rainwater-harvesting features which could save 42 million litres of water a year, Mr Tan said, enough to fill 21 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

As well, a small chute running down the middle of the tower can be used for waste paper disposal, he said, adding this was an 'in-house' innovation probably not replicated elsewhere as yet, adding there would be sprinklers and safeguards so that a carelessly discarded cigarette butt would not cause an inferno.

The company is aiming to achieve at least Green Mark gold or gold plus ratings for all future projects, he said.



By CHEW XIANG

[Singapor3]

What the difference between ocean towers and ocean building?

[RafflesCity]

I think Ocean Towers is that brown building behind Ocean Building in Pengui's pic above. Didnt know that it too would be demolished

[Baby]

If I read the news correctly, the existing Tower will be built as a car park ?

So in this case the gross floor area of OFC is the combination of existing Ocean Building and Tower ?

[kurakura]

do expect completion date to be delayed as the squeeze for raw materials persists.