Making House
Heatherwick Studio · King's Cross, London, United Kingdom · 2024
Projects / Built project
EDEN
A 20-storey apartment building that lifts private homes and generous planted balconies into Singapore's tropical canopy.
- Client
- Swire Properties Ltd / Celestial Fortune
- Status
- Completed 2020
- Scale
- 20 apartments over 20 storeys
- Size
- 33,425 sq ft
The story
The story behind the work.
EDEN rethinks the conventional residential tower as a vertical garden in Singapore's Newton district. Heatherwick Studio moved the services to the building's perimeter so that each of the 20 apartments could centre on a large living space surrounded by private rooms and shell-like balconies.
The apartments begin 27 metres above an intensely planted ground-level garden. Within the 18-metre-high lobby, planted chandeliers rise through the building and become private outdoor spaces, while alternating balconies create double-height gardens with more than 20 plant species.
Natural materials, deep planting and shade connect high-rise living with Singapore's landscape. The official studio page records the project as completed in 2020.
Credits
- Design
- Heatherwick Studio
The practice