Six Battery Road

Six Battery Road, formerly the Standard Chartered Bank Building, is a high-rise skyscraper located in the central business district of Singapore. It is located on 6 Battery Road, in Raffles Place. The tower is situated adjacent to the Bank of China Building[5] and faces the Singapore River. It is a class-A office building, and houses offices of several multi-national companies. The development has a net floor area of 46,060 m2 as at 30 June 2007,[6] and has direct access to Raffles Place MRT station.

Six Battery Road
Six Battery Road (far right)
Former namesStandard Chartered Bank
General information
StatusComplete
TypeCommercial offices
Architectural styleModernism
LocationRaffles Place, Downtown Core, Singapore
Coordinates1.285404°N 103.851764°E / 1.285404; 103.851764
Completed1984
OwnerCapitaCommercial Trust
Height
Roof174 m (571 ft)
Technical details
Floor count44
3 below ground
Design and construction
ArchitectP & T Group
DeveloperCapitaLand Limited
EngineerMeinhardt
References
[1][2][3][4]

At its completion, it was the largest building for the Standard Chartered Bank worldwide and also represented the largest single investment by a British company. The building is on a 999-year leasehold.[7]

History

Six Battery Road was designed by P & T Architects & Engineers Ltd and RSP Architects Planners & Engineers Private Limited, and was completed in 1984. Other firms involved in the development included CapitaLand Commercial Limited, Clover Properties Private Limited, Hazama Gumi, CapitaLand Limited, Lighting Design Partnership, Meinhardt (Singapore) Private Limited, and Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP.

The building was officially opened on 24 October 1984 by Lord Barber, then chairman of the Standard Chartered Bank Group as the anchor tenant.[8] The building's 1st, 20th, 21st, 43rd, and 44th floors underwent renovation, which was completed in March 2002.

Architecture

Six Battery Road has a baltic brown granite exterior, and is mainly made out of concrete. Despite the building being a British investment, it was feng-shui (Chinese geomancy) tested. Even the opening date was chosen as it was a propitious day according to the Chinese Almanac.

  • Six Battery Road (brown building on left) is in many photographs of the Singapore skyline.

See also

References
  1. "Six Battery Road". CTBUH Skyscraper Center.
  2. Six Battery Road at Emporis
  3. "Six Battery Road". SkyscraperPage.
  4. Six Battery Road at Structurae
  5. "Asia Travel : Map of Standard Chartered Battery Road (S) 049909". StreetDirectory. Archived from the original on 16 February 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-06.
  6. "6 Battery Road". CapitaLand. Archived from the original on 2007-11-14. Retrieved 2008-02-06.
  7. "Giddy: Case study - 6 Battery Road". Ian Giddy. Retrieved 2008-02-06.
  8. "Occasion for a lord and a 'lion' to meet". The Straits Times (retrieved from NLB). 25 October 1984. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
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