This hotel is the new flagship property of Oasia Hotels, the wellness-focused brand of Singaporean hotel company Far East Hospitality. The hotel building, which had 27 above-ground floors, stood out from other tall buildings of the Tanjong Pagar area, due to its distinctive red aluminium mesh facade with lined with lush climbing plants. The building had three blow-through indoor gardens on levels 6, 12, and 21, which featured more plants and formed the base of an atrium that extended until beneath the next elevated garden, or in the case of the uppermost atrium, below the pool deck on the top level 27.
Aside lodging uses, the building also had office space as well. The ground floor of the building served as an entry point for both components, with the actual hotel reception up on level 12. A separate elevator vestibule for offices was off to the side of the main entrance, which was at the east side of the building. The Marmalade Pantry, a third-party all-day dining restaurant providing catering services for the hotel, occupied the central and northern areas of the street level, along with the Cin Cin Bar off to the south. Loading docks and mechanical rooms were at the western side of this floor. Levels 2 to 5 housed a parking garage, with the second and third floors used as office parking, and the two floors above reserved for hotel guests. Floor 6, the first sky garden level, had several amenities for the office tenants, including a swimming pool, a small gym, and meeting rooms. Levels 7 to 11 had the offices themselves, reached by direct elevators from the ground floor. Level 12, which was the second sky garden level, featured an expansive open-air event lawn, alongside the reception, the hotel gym, and a banquet space. Hotel rooms began from the 13th floor, with standard rooms on levels 13 to 20 and club rooms and suites on levels 22 to 26; the latter had access to a club lounge on the third sky garden on level 21, which also had an infinity-edge pool for club floor guests. Level 27, the topmost floor, had two pools each on the northern and southern sides, with the central area occupied by OSO Ristorante, the hotel’s signature Italian restaurant.
The building had a total of 13 elevators manufactured by KONE, consisting of three office elevators, three hotel shuttle elevators, three standard level guest elevators, two club level guest elevators, and two service elevators. This video features the bank of hotel shuttle elevators, which served the hotel parking levels, the hotel sky lobby on level 12, club lounge on level 21, and the rooftop pool deck and restaurant on level 27. The walls of their cabs were finished with wooden beams, giving off a vibe of a log cabin, while the floors had linoleum covering. Overall their cabs were quite narrow, perhaps due to three elevators having been squeezed into a corner in order to permit the building’s stacked atrium design. While they accelerated very gradually and thus were easy on the passengers’ ears, their terminal speed was way too slow considering that they essentially ran the entire length of the building. That one of the cars was out of order during filming did not help, resulting in quite long waits. Access to the level 21 club lounge required a key card, as was the case with level 27 with the restaurant on that floor closed at the time of visit.
Manufacturer: KONE Pte Ltd
Model name: MiniSpace
Year of commission: 2016
Loading: 950kg (2,090lbs)
Capacity: 14 persons
Full speed: 3m/s (600FPM)
Serviced floors: *1, 4, 5, 12, 21, 27