CAPITALAND, which had harboured ambitions to commission renowned architects like Daniel Libeskind and Frank Gehry to design its proposed integrated resort projects here will now get to work alongside Zaha Hadid.
Having designs: CapitaLand's condo on the former Farrer Court site will be designed by MsHadidUK-based Ms Hadid won the coveted Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004. Her most recent commissions include the billion euro Louvre in Abu Dhabi.
The news was announced yesterday by Patricia Chia, chief executive of CapitaLand Residential Singapore.
She said that Ms Hadid will design a new condominium that will come up on the site of the former Farrer Court, for which CapitaLand, Hotel Properties and US-based Wachovia Development Corporation paid $1.34 billion in June last year. Ms Chia did not say when the new development will be launched for sale.
Ms Hadid was responsible for the masterplan for one-north here, but did not design any of the buildings coming up at the science hub.
Apart from two bungalows designed for Elevation Developments, CapitaLand's condominium will be Ms Hadid's first architectural work in Singapore.
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