Notably over the past decade, Singapore has developed into one in every of Asia’s most vibrant and engaging cities. Now world-famous for its distinctive structure, excellent eating, distinctive tradition, and vibrant nightlife, the city-state can be quick changing into the main finance and enterprise hub of the area.
The vast majority of the highlights that Singapore is now well-known for — the points of interest and attributes which have seen this nation’s worldwide fame, respect and standing skyrocket in recent times — are located inside a brief distance of GuocoLand’s luxurious, elegantly designed new developments, Midtown Modern and Midtown Bay.
Collectively often known as Guoco Midtown, these exceptional new properties couldn’t be extra completely positioned. Right here, you’ll dwell within the epicentre of all the things that makes Singapore such an thrilling metropolis immediately.
Welcome to Midtown, your new neighbourhood… that includes Singapore’s greatest eating places, bars, museums and theatres, five-star accommodations, wonderful purchasing, and naturally, the town’s enterprise district.
Good neighbours
Because it stands, eleven of Asia’s 50 Best Bars and 9 of Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants are positioned in Singapore, and most of these, you’ll discover inside a brief distance from Guoco Midtown.
The pinnacle of F&B on the close by Swissôtel The Stamford and Fairmont accommodations, Emmanuel Benardos oversees an array of famend eating institutions, together with the 2 Michelin-starred Jaan by Kirk Westaway, Skai bar and restaurant, the famed Japanese eaterie Mikuni, and beloved Italian spot, Prego.
“It’s such an awesome space round right here,” he says. “That’s why so many vacationers are drawn to staying on this a part of city. There’s a number of historical past and tradition to discover, so I all the time recommend our visitors try the Armenian Church, pay a go to to the great Peranakan Museum, and check out True Blue Peranakan restaurant. And you’ll want to stroll round Chijmes, the superbly transformed convent with some terrific eating places and bars, in addition to the church famously featured within the film Loopy Wealthy Asians.”
Throughout the street from Chijmes is Singapore’s iconic Raffles Hotel, the place you possibly can get pleasure from a crafted cocktail on the Writers’ Bar, a surprising degustation eating expertise at La Dame du Pic or Butcher’s Block eating places, have afternoon tea within the elegant foyer, or get pleasure from among the metropolis’s greatest Indian meals on the Tiffin Room. Afterwards, residents of Guoco Midtown can merely stroll dwelling.
Singapore’s most unique bespoke tailor, Kevin Seah says he has typically dreamt of getting an atelier on Seah Avenue, which runs behind Raffles. This isn’t just because he shares a reputation with the shophouse-filled avenue. “I like going to Sing Swee Kee Hen Rice there, it’s superb, a traditional, after which heading throughout to the Bras Basah Advanced,” he explains.
“There’s some attention-grabbing watch purchasing to be found there, however the principle cause I’m going is to browse Basheer Graphic Books, which is among the greatest sources for trend, design and pictures books in Singapore,” Seah says. “That’s a improbable supply of inspiration.” For a good richer trove of literature, in fact, the National Library is mere moments away.
Residents of Midtown Modern and Midtown Bay in search of a dose of tradition will discover exactly that on the Nationwide Gallery (which additionally homes the Michelin-lauded eating places Odette and Artwork), the Victoria Live performance Corridor, Asian Civilisations Museum, and the ArtScience Museum, all of that are inside straightforward attain of the Guoco Midtown growth on Seashore Street. So too is Singapore’s dwelling of dwell efficiency, the Esplanade.
Since its opening twenty years in the past, the architecturally putting Esplanade has performed host to greater than 53,000 performances, drawing over 110 million guests. On the constructing’s second flooring, at Restaurant Labyrinth, Chef LG Han practices a unique sort of artwork — the culinary form, serving modern ‘New Singaporean’ dishes resembling chilli crab ice-cream, incomes this institution a Michelin star and 11th place on the 2023 Asia’s 50 Greatest listing for its regionally sourced, regionally impressed delicacies.
“My favorite a part of being positioned within the Esplanade is being proper within the coronary heart of Singapore’s musical and cultural centre,” Han says. “As an avid theatre- and concert-goer myself, I like being amongst the vibe of what Esplanade stands for, and the performances it hosts and organises.”
Equally, these residing on this neighbourhood can be proper among the many motion through the metropolis’s largest worldwide drawcards, together with the Formula 1 Grand Prix Evening Race and Nationwide Day Parade. Plus, with Guoco Midtown positioned above Bugis MRT interchange, in addition to providing a community of underground pedestrian pathways accessing the town, getting round from right here couldn’t be extra trouble-free.
Good residing
Clearly, Guoco Midtown is enviably positioned, set amongst Singapore’s most enjoyable points of interest and occasions, with easy entry to the CBD and its surrounds. However its enchantment goes far past an awesome deal with. A ‘placemaker’, GuocoLand espouses a philosophy merging “Location, Idea and Neighborhood,” getting down to create top-quality developments with distinctive, well-thought-out ideation and aesthetics at their core, which is able to in flip entice the precise neighborhood of patrons and tenants.
Integral to the design of Guoco Midtown was the idea of making a nature-filled oasis within the metropolis’s coronary heart, to make sure that regardless of dwelling amidst the vitality of the metropolis, residents would come dwelling to a serene, inexperienced sanctuary. GuocoLand sees the supply of ample inexperienced area — greater than 400,000 sq ft in actual fact, throughout the event’s 20 plazas and gardens — as important to making sure the standard of lifetime of Midtown’s residents, bringing a key advantage of suburban residing to a central, city setting.
The sibling developments of Midtown Modern and Midtown Bay provide properties tailor-made to people and households at totally different phases in life, with a spread of tastes and necessities. In a single- and two-bedroom, plus two- and three-bedroom duplex configurations, the 219 models in Midtown Bay have been designed to ship the nimble flexibility immediately’s life-style calls for.
Fulfilling the wants of dynamic trendy professionals, areas might be tailored to working from dwelling, entertaining, and comfy residing. Duplex models can simply be segmented to operate as a small workplace with a separate residing space, the proper set-up for start-up entrepreneurs and small enterprise house owners, or just those that want privateness for work-from-home Zoom conferencing or in-person conferences.
The 558 luxurious backyard properties at Midtown Trendy equally possess the flexibility to cater to clever dwell/work conditions. Right here, along with one- and two-bedroom flats, bigger three- and four-bedroom models of a uncommon scale and format will enchantment to prosperous family-oriented patrons, in search of the expansive residing areas one would possibly sometimes expertise within the suburbs, whereas having fun with a helpful inner-city location minutes from the CBD.
Each properties function crisp, trendy inside design and the very best high quality fittings, with ‘good dwelling’ tech accoutrements and lovely views of gardens and the town skyline.
What Guoco Midtown presents is the chance to dwell proper within the centre of all Singapore’s greatest points of interest, with the comfort and enviable life-style that facilitates, whereas on the identical time dwelling in a verdant atmosphere that lends a way of suburban serenity — minus the effort of lengthy commutes, waylaid in visitors or crowded MRTs. It’s really an unbelievable mixture.