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CT HUB: A Glowing Jewel

ONG&ONG designs a building in Singapore that ‘comes to life’ when dusk falls.

CT HUB: A Glowing Jewel


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October 9th, 2013


CT Hub makes a striking architectural statement from its location on the junction of Kallang Avenue and Kallang Bahru.

The project is an eleven-storey building with two levels of retail space and nine levels of light industrial office and production facilities, totaling 34,000 square metres.

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The building’s massing is conceived as a ‘jewel box’, with forms and patterns embossed and carved out to create lush courtyards, gardens and terraces.

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Its most striking feature is its facade, designed as a complex lattice pattern of both straight and 20-degree angled lines drawn from digital LED displays.

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Visual variation is presented in the form of recessed balconies on the facade. These recesses fit playfully yet precisely into the facade’s lattice, like pieces of a puzzle

By night, the recesses light up and LED accents bring out the lattice pattern. And so as the city sleeps, the building comes to life, like a jewel…

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