Pan Pacific Orchard
Client: UOL Claymore Investment Pte Ltd
Architect: WOHA Architects Pte Ltd
Landscape Architect/Designer: WOHA Architects Pte Ltd
Main Contractor: Shimizu Corporation
Year: 2023
LIAS Awards of Excellence 2025
Silver – Implementation (Non-Residential)
Pan Pacific Orchard embodies a pioneering “Hotel in Nature” concept, setting a new benchmark for high-rise tropical hospitality in Singapore. Located at 10 Claymore Road, the development integrates open-air architecture with extensive greenery across four distinctive terraces — Forest, Beach, Garden, and Cloud — each offering a unique spatial experience shaped by lush planting, water features, and elevated garden environments.
The landscape plays a central role in bringing this vision to life, weaving greenery through cascading water plazas, lagoon-style pools, sky gardens, and event spaces to create an immersive connection between hospitality and nature. Verdant green columns and layered planting contribute to a 300% replacement of the site area with vegetation, reinforcing the hotel’s identity as a distinctive garden hotel along Orchard Road.
Recognised internationally, Pan Pacific Orchard was named the world’s best new tall building by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat in 2024, alongside other awards for its sustainable high-rise design. It has also achieved Green Mark Platinum, reflecting its integration of passive design strategies, climate-responsive spaces, and environmental performance within a dense urban setting.
Forest Terrace
The Forest Terrace features a cascading water plaza surrounded by forest trees, creating a dramatic entrance and fostering a lasting urban connection. A variety of forest plant species were chosen and planted around the plaza, bringing a dense tropical forest experience to both guests and the public, offering a peaceful escape from the bustling district.
The expansive volumes function as oversized sunshades for the terraces and rooms, while the reflective ceilings act as thermal mirrors, boosting radiant cooling by increasing the surface area of lush planting and water.
Beach Terrace
The Beach Terrace provides guests with a tropical sanctuary in an urban setting. Along the winding sandy beachfront, Dypsis leptocheilos palms encircle the lagoon. Selected to emulate coconut palms, they create a relaxed, resort-like atmosphere.
Garden Terrace
A Garden Terrace over situated between the Bar and Lounge, the Terrace features a beautifully manicured garden, complete with a verandah, event lawn, fountains, and lush greenery. As the area being under shade, an artificial turf was used for the event lawn.
Cloud Terrace
A city rooftop experience with a central gathering square and crystal pavilions beneath a floating canopy. There are two green roofs installed, on Function Hall Roof with a 2 degrees slope at Level 19 and a Ballroom Hall Roof at Level 20 which is inclined 19 degrees.
Ballroom Hall Green Roof
SS cable restrainers were installed at this 19° slope green roof to ensure that the Modular Peg Trays do not slip. Strategic maintenance footpath were designed and special safety lifelines were provided for safe maintenance. Coordination with relevant parties was done to ensure the green roof system is viable.
Green Columns
Green columns anchor each terrace, visually linking the four strata. A variety of climbers are planted to form a natural green wall, with artificial grow lights installed to promote the growth of the creepers in the shaded areas of the columns.
