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Even urban hotels can be truly biophilic, this Singapore hotel shows

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Staying true to Singapore’s epithet as ‘the garden city’, WOHA Architects designed the Pan Pacific Orchard hotel as a biophilic tribute to that name. - Darren Soh
The 23-storey hotel has 14,000 sq-m of foliage and water features, its greenery tripling the hotel’s footprint area. - Studio Periphery
Guests enter the hotel in a high-ceiling open-air lobby where the first of four green columns covered in crawling plants is found. - Darren Soh

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Architecture, Interior Design
Floor Area
19,693 sq-m

Four outdoor terraces are carved out of the façade of the 23-storey Pan Pacific Orchard hotel in Singapore, creating pockets of greenery that contribute to the overall gue

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