Parkroyal Collection Hotel Marina Bay / FDAT Architects

Andreas Luco — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 20:00:00 +0000

PARKROYAL COLLECTION Marina Bay explores Singapore’s garden city within a new context - inverting the relationship between nature and architecture and breathing new life into the older but still exuberant 21-story urban scaled atrium complex - creating a kind Garden-in-a-Hotel. One of the tenets of sustainability is not to create unnecessary waste; this applies to buildings as well as plastic bags. The demolition of a typical high-rise emits 51,300 tons of carbon dioxide – equivalent to wiping out 10,000 hectares of forest - an area larger than all of Singapore’s nature reserves. The existing structure was both robust and interesting; the design focuses on re-purposing and transforming the experience of this significant structure.

Parkroyal Collection Hotel Kuala Lumpur / FDAT Architects

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

As urbanization becomes increasingly rapid, it is increasingly important to look at innovative ways to green our cities. Much focus has been on new buildings, with older existing buildings often overlooked. The design of PARKROYAL COLLECTION Kuala Lumpur is an opportunity to transform an existing enclosed concrete box into a lush green lung by integrating a substantial amount of greenery into the building using innovative means. Numerous cantilevered gardens perforate the building envelope, adding extensive green real estate to the otherwise fully built-up site. These floating gardens bring lush greenery directly to the hotel's public areas and guestrooms; from the exterior, a lush green outlook is created - ending vistas from surrounding streets, adding a refreshing interlude in the built-up Kuala Lumpur city center.

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Parkroyal Collection Hotel Marina Bay / FDAT Architects

Parkroyal Collection Hotel Kuala Lumpur / FDAT Architects