Designer Thomas Heatherwick, acclaimed for The Rolling Bridge in Paddington, London and B of the Bang Sculpture in Manchester, has just been commissioned to tackle his first residential project in Asia.

Giving life to the concept of combining urban apartment living with nature, each balcony has its own built-in garden area. The goal was to think outside the confines of typical apartment building design in order to combine upscale city living with private outdoor space, a luxury that is becoming increasingly difficult to find in urban areas.

?Like most global cities, Singapore?s skyline is filled with angular steel and glass towers. With Swire Properties we wanted to create something distinctive that represents Singapore as a city in a garden, and recreate the verdant backyard access once ubiquitous across homes here. Instead of glass-clad edifices with token balconies, each home within ?EDEN? will have a lush garden right at the doorstep with organic and generous living spaces achieved by breaking up the traditional boxy floorplate,? Thomas Heatherwick, founder of Heatherwick Studio, explains.
The building’s design resembles a spinal column, with simple vertical rectilinear plains and slim windows forming the foundation and generous garden balconies situated in between to allow privacy in each apartment and a large, centralized living space in the center of each floor. And while it may not be as tall as other buildings in the area, the drapes of ...