WOHA's Pan Pacific Orchard hotel named 2024 CTBUH Best Tall Building Worldwide

A series of four terraced sky gardens, each showcasing their own individualized "motifs" — Forest, Beach, Garden and Cloud — defines the concept. 

Their presence offers amenities-lined sheltered outdoor spaces for guests while helping cross-ventilate the building's interior, with creeper-wrapped columns appearing at either corner. All throughout the design, a vision for a verdant "hotel in nature" comes to life, topped by a photovoltaic canopy on the uppermost Cloud level. The building's gross floor area is equal to 19,693 square meters (or about 211,500 square feet), and its emphasis on including sustainable features such as an on-site food waste processor helped it to earn a Green Mark Platinum rating from Singapore's Building and Construction Authority after construction began in 2019. 

WOHA’s founding partner Mun Summ Wong said finally: "At WOHA, we believe in creating living buildings that are integrated with nature, as well as the urban fabric of the cities they inhabit, and Pan Pacific Orchard represents our commitment to building for both people and the planet. This project demonstrates that sustainability and hospitality can go hand-in-hand, and that skyscrapers can serve as green lungs within dense urban environments."

The project also won this year's CTBUH’s Space Within category award for its interior layout, user experience, and design. Pan Pacific Orchard follows 3XN's Sydney Quay Quarter Tower (2023), DS+R's new David Rubenstein Forum in Chicago (2022), and KPF's NYC One Vanderbilt Avenue (2021) as the four most recent Best Tall Building honorees.