Pearl Bank Apartments
| Pearl Bank Apartments | |
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| 珍珠苑 | |
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| General information | |
| Status | Complete |
| Type | Residential |
| Architectural style | High-rise |
| Location | Chinatown, Outram, Singapore |
| Coordinates | 1°16′59.4″N 103°50′22.4″E / 1.283167°N 103.839556°ECoordinates: 1°16′59.4″N 103°50′22.4″E / 1.283167°N 103.839556°E |
| Owner | Hock Seng Enterprises |
| Management | Hock Seng Enterprises |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 38 |
Pearl Bank Apartments (Chinese: 珍珠苑; pinyin: Zhēnzhū yuàn) is a high-rise private residential building on Pearl's Hill in Outram, near the Chinatown of Singapore.
As the tallest and densest residential building in Singapore when completed in 1976, Pearl Bank Apartments was one of Singapore's pioneers of high-rise, high-density living, and influenced urban development in Singapore and other cities in southeast Asia.
The Pearl Bank Apartments was the first all-housing project to be undertaken in the Urban Renewal Department of the Housing and Development Board's Sale of Sites programme. The residential project was the subject of the programme's third sale in 1969.
With a height of 113 m (371 ft), the Pearl Bank Apartments was the tallest residential building in Singapore when it was completed in June 1976.
On 4 August 2007, the Pearl Bank Apartments which is located on a 8,000 m2 (86,000 sq ft), 99-year leasehold site was put up for an sale. The tender closed on 18 September 2007, but fetched no bids. Another tender closed on February 19, 2008, failing again, and the collective sale agreement lapsed on August 1, 2008.
The Pearl Bank Apartments is a 38-storey hollow ¾ cylindrical tower, resembling a horseshoe, designed for a total occupancy of 1,500 persons. When completed in 1976, the building had the largest number of apartments contained in a single block, and had the highest density of any private modern residential building at 1,853 persons per hectare. It was designed by Singaporean architect Tan Cheng Siong of Archurban Architects Planners.
The 272-unit apartment block comprises three types of split-level units — 48 two-bedroom (130 m2 (1,400 sq ft)), 184 three-bedroom (176.5 m2 (1,900 sq ft)) and 40 four-bedroom (213.7 m2 (2,300 sq ft)) dwellings, with eight units to each floor — and an additional eight penthouses. There is a shopping area with seven units on the first storey, and the building has a four-storey carpark. The 28th storey is devoted for community use, known as the "Sky Park".
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