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Six Battery Road
Six Battery Road (far right)
Former names	Standard Chartered Bank
General information
Status	Completed
Type	Commercial offices
Architectural style	Modernism
Location	Raffles Place, Downtown Core, Singapore
Coordinates	1°17′07″N 103°51′06″E / 1.285404°N 103.851764°E / 1.285404; 103.851764
Completed	1984
Owner	CapitaCommercial Trust
Height
Roof	174 m (571 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	44 3 below ground
Design and construction
Architect(s)	P&T Group RSP Architects Planners & Engineers
Developer	CapitaLand Limited
Engineer	Meinhardt
References

Six Battery Road, formerly the Standard Chartered Bank Building, is a high-rise skyscraper located in the central business district of Singapore.

It is located at 6 Battery Road, in Raffles Place. The tower is located adjacent to the Bank of China Building and faces the Singapore River.

It is a class-A office building and houses the offices of several multi-national companies. The development had a net floor area of 46,060 m (495,800 sq ft), as of 30 June 2007, and has direct access to Raffles Place MRT station.

At its completion, it was the largest building for the Standard Chartered Bank worldwide and also represented the largest single investment by a British company. The building is on a 999-year leasehold.

History

Six Battery Road, completed in 1984, was designed by P&T Architects & Engineers Ltd. and RSP Architects Planners & Engineers(Pte) Ltd.. The development involved several firms, including CapitaLand Commercial Limited, Clover Properties Private Limited, Hazama Gumi, CapitaLand Limited, Lighting Design Partnership, Meinhardt (Singapore) Private Limited, and Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP.

The building was inaugurated on 24 October 1984 by Lord Barber, then chairman of the Standard Chartered Bank Group, which served as the anchor tenant. Subsequently, the 1st, 20th, 21st, 43rd, and 44th floors underwent renovation, completed in March 2002."

Architecture

Six Battery Road has a baltic brown granite exterior and is mainly made out of concrete. Despite the building being a British investment, it was feng-shui (Chinese geomancy) tested. Even the opening date was chosen as it was a propitious day according to the Chinese Almanac.

• Six Battery Road (brown building on left) is in many photographs of the Singapore skyline.

See also

• List of tallest buildings in Singapore
• Raffles Place

References

1. "Six Battery Road". CTBUH Skyscraper Center.
2. "Emporis building ID 106468". Emporis. Archived from the original on April 22, 2016.
3. "Six Battery Road". SkyscraperPage.
4. Six Battery Road at Structurae
5. "Asia Travel : Map of Standard Chartered Battery Road (S) 049909". StreetDirectory. Archived from the original on 16 February 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-06.
6. "6 Battery Road". CapitaLand. Archived from the original on 2007-11-14. Retrieved 2008-02-06.
7. "Giddy: Case study - 6 Battery Road". Ian Giddy. Retrieved 2008-02-06.
8. "Occasion for a lord and a 'lion' to meet". The Straits Times (retrieved from NLB). 25 October 1984. Retrieved 8 October 2019.

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