Parkroyal Collection Hotel Marina Bay / FDAT Architects

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.