Parkview Building Weblog

Parkview Square is an office building located at

600 North Bridge Road, Singapore 188778.

The Parkview Square building, aka the Gotham City

building, faces North Bridge Road, across from the

380-bed Raffles Hospital.

Visitors are reminded of Batman’s Gotham City and exaggerated

Art Deco architecture when looking at the Parkview building.

It is the only building on an open field bordered by

N Bridge Rd, Ophir Rd, Beach Rd and Rochor Rd.

On this site, the open field betwen Parkview Sq and

Gateway, is where most circuses visiting Singapore

pitch their tents.

Two bars, the Divine Society and

The Macallan, occupy the building’s lobby,

with a three-story wine bar. Bar patrons are served by hoisted female ‘angels’. [see:  http://missbeh.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_archive.html ]

The granite cladded, art deco office building was

designed by American consultant James Adams together

with DP Architects of Singapore, and houses modern,

column-free floors. It was among the more expensive

office buildings to build in Singapore. It is said

they are so exclusive they select their tenants,

such as the Singapore embassies of Austria and the

United Arab Emirates.

You may be familiar with the white and the black Sir

Stamford Raffles statues outside in downtown

Singapore. Inside Parkview Square is a 3rd Sir

Stamford Raffles statue.

It has been said the building appears to follow a

pedestrian around as one walks through downtown

Singapore.

The raised plaza that fronts the building entrance

has bronze statues of random famous people,

including; Sun Yat-sen, Abraham Lincoln, Salvador

Dalí, Mozart, Chopin, Isaac Newton, Pablo Picasso,

Rembrandt, Shakespeare, Plato, Dante, Winston

Churchill and Albert Einstein.

Exiting from the Parkview Square entrance plaza via

an underground tunnel, a sign promises the escalator

will take you down to the Green line MRT station,

E-W #12 at Bugis.

At the bottom, however, is nothing but walls and a

short walk to another escalator that goes up to the

N Bridge Rd Car Park, by the intersection of N

Bridge Rd and Rochor Rd. Continuing up to Rochor Rd

and Victoria Street, you will find the actual

entrance to the Ew12 Bugis train station.

You can purchase a ticket for a ride in the red and

yellow DHL ballon, out to the right of Parkview

Square, the building houses a DHL regional office. A

10 minute flight is SD$23 for adult and SD$13 for

child.

parkview-square-singapore.jpg

See “Parkview Square” in Wikipedia.org for more

information, or search for ‘parkview building’ and ‘video’.

=Video=
Exterior –

http://www.flixya.com/video/543091/Parkview_Square_Singapore_-_Interior

Elevated entrance plaza –

are

http://www.flixya.com/video/543512/Secret_Garden_Parkview_Square

Inside the entrance –

http://www.flixya.com/video/543091/Parkview_Square_Singapore_-_Interior

http://wandertales.vodpod.com/video/729138-optical-illusion-parkview-square-fountains

Exterior video and  photos –

http://sgbuildings.wordpress.com/2007/10/12/gothem-building-in-singapore/

building photo

http://www.pbase.com/rafflescity/image/42736509

http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/BuildingDetail/2453.php

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=102208&page=17

Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkview_Square

http://www.bca.gov.sg/Awards/BestBuildableDesign/bda

03_08.html

http://sg.pagenation.com/sin/Parkview%

20Square_103.8577_1.3004.map

http://sg.pagenation.com/sin/Open%20Field%20betwen%

20Parkview%20Sq%20and%20Gateway_103.8583_1.2997.map