A PLACE TO CALL HOME
Dec 10, 2021
4 minutes
By Karen Tee.
Photography by Darren Gabriel Leow
With a chain of seven 50-storey towers connected by two 500m-long sky gardens—the longest ever built on skyscrapers—The Pinnacle@Duxton is a highlight on the Singapore city skyline. To its more than 7,000 residents, or “Pinnaclans” as they like to call themselves, it is the place they call home.
“They have started to identify with the place,” says architect Khoo Peng Beng, the director and co-founder of Arc Studio Architecture + Urbanism, which is behind the residential project in the Tanjong Pagar area. “Architecture has that power to allow people to claim a space and for it to occupy their imagination.” Khoo, together with his architect wife Belinda Huang, who is also director at
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