Singapore-based WOHA Architects have built the Park Royal Hotel-a building almost completely overrun with gardens, water features and green pathways. The ultimate ‘green city’ comprises of vegetation and the green-growing potential of its site is excellent. The urban oasis features cascades that flow down from swimming pools and garden terraces on the podium roof and into clefts and projections from which trees and vines can thrive. It creates a botanical microcosm in the midst of busy Singapore.
Park Royal on Pickering won the BCA Green Mark Platinum-the highest rating for green buildings in Singapore, and the Solar Pioneer Award as one the first buildings in the warmth sector to use harvest solar energy.
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