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One Raffles Place

One Raffles Place is a skyscraper in Downtown Core, Singapore. The development comprises two towers and a podium. The 280 m (920 ft) tall Tower One and the 38-storey Tower Two house offices, while the podium contains retail space. Initially conceived in the late 1970s as Overseas Union Bank Centre, the headquarters of Overseas Union Bank (OUB), work on the building began in 1981, while construction of the superstruc…

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1986

Raffles Place, Raffles Place, Singapore

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One Raffles Place in Raffles Place, Singapore

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Kenzo Tange

1913-2005 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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Kenzō Tange was a Japanese architect. Born in Sakai and raised in China and southern Japan, Tange was inspired from an early age by the work of Le Corbusier and designed his first buildings under Imperial Japan. He first achieved recognition for his projects to reconstruct the destroyed cities of postwar Japan, partic…

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Kenzo Tange Associates

practice · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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