Daniel Libeskind designed these luxury apartment towers at Keppel Bay in Singapore, completed in 2011. The six buildings are 24 to 41 floors high, for a maximum of 525 ft in height. The complex rises like a grove of trees. Each building has a solid core, a curved reflective body, and a ghost structure that extends up the top. It is a form that takes starts with natural fundamentals. Bridges span across building to building. Taller towers loom up into the skyline, while groups of smaller units scatter around them below, like young trees in a dense forest.
The ghost structure allows rooftop gardens to gaze through. The tiered green gardens visually connect with the rolling green landscape at ground level. Skillful patterning of the exterior glazing on a grid brings mathemetical complexity, with contortions toward optimal views. The contortion of the grid in the glazing and structure is stretched at some extreme points. Small areas for public and private gathering also open up.
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