Article source: WOHA

Set amidst an enclave of black and white houses just off the prime Orchard/Scotts Road area, and against a verdant 20-hectare backdrop of greenery, the 210-unit Goodwood Residence is conceived on a macro scale as a breathing space – a rarity in high density urbanised Singapore – and an extension of the Goodwood Hill tree conservation area that it shares a boundary of 150m with. Articulated as two 12-storey L-shaped blocks, the 2.5-hectare development dialogues with the hill that it embraces and merges with in a language of openness and continuity made expressive by varying degrees of scale and privacy.

Lush greenery along site perimeter dissolves the building boundary and affords a green introduction to the development., Image Courtesy © Patrick Bingham-Hall

• Architects: WOHA
• Project: Goodwood Residence
• Location: Bukit Timah Road, Singapore
• Photography: Patrick Bingham-Hall
• Design Inception: Jun 2006
• Start of Piling: Mar 2008
• Start of Construction: 25 Jan 2010
• Completed (TOP): 28 Jun 2013
• Cost Piling Contract: $11,319,000
• Cost 1st Main Contract: $191,930,000
• Cost 2nd Main Contract: $55,000,000
• Plot Area: 24,844.7 sqm
• Gross Floor Area: 43,696.51sqm – include Bonus Balcony GFA (3,530.20sqm)
• Constructed Floor: include Incentive GFA (414.79sqm)
• Area Total Strata: 69,350.01sqm
• Area: 51,058.00sqm