Offices and meeting rooms are nestled among tropical plants in this wealth management centre in Singapore by local studio Ministry of Design.
Conceived as a "banking conservatory", the verdant scheme won an international competition launched by Citibank Singapore last year that invited entrants to reimagine the conventional interiors often associated with financial institutions.
Ministry of Design has created a conservatory within the Citi Wealth Hub
The brief set out by Citibank was to create a wealth management centre dedicated to its high net-worth clients, over an area of 2,787 square metres across floors six to nine of an office building on Singapore's Orchard Road.
Across its four levels, the Citi Wealth Hub has more than 30 client advisory rooms alongside flexible office and event spaces, making it the bank's largest wealth advisory hub in the world. Levels seven and eight are filled with sinuous brass planters
The site is distinguished by its soaring atrium with tinted glass walls and skylights that create ideal conditions for growing tropical plants.
In recognition of this, the studio proposed an office scheme based around a lush conservatory that would anchor the entire office.
Seating alcoves are nestled into the greenery
On floors seven and eight, a series of social spaces are nestled within the greenery, including a bar, observation deck, garden pods, banquette seating and a central garden lounge with a honed Grigio Carnico marble bar.
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