One Raffles Place
Paths outward
- Location
- Raffles Place, Singapore
- Year
- 1986
- Typology
- Office
- Materials
- Ceramic, Concrete, Glass, Marble, Metal cladding, Steel
- Context
- Modernism, Metabolism
- Map
- Open location
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 superstructure subsequently commenced in October 1984. Costing S$486 million to build, OUB Centre opened in two phases in June and December 1986, and 90% of its office space was occupied upon opening. At the time of its completion, The Business Times claimed that the complex's tower was the tallest in the world outside the United States.
