WATG 经典｜新加坡香格里拉大酒店花园翼

早在1970年代中期，WATG设计了新加坡香格里拉大酒店的花园翼。这是一个里程碑式的项目，它标志着 WATG （当时的 WWAT&G） 正式进军亚洲。

Back in the mid-1970s, WATG (formerly known as WWAT&G) designed the iconic Garden Wing of the Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore. This was a landmark project that marked WATG’s official foray of WATG into the Asian frontier.

项目于1978年建成开业，打破了当时酒店就是“高楼大厦”的固有印象，用阶梯式的低层退台式建筑、宽敞的客房和郁郁葱葱的热带花园景观凸显奢华。

Exuding luxury as a low-rise building with setback terraces, spacious guest rooms and lush tropical garden views, the project was completed and opened in 1978, breaking the stereotype that hotels needed to be high-rise buildings in order to be luxurious.

我们的创新设计令冷冰冰的建筑变成了富有生机的热带花园，酒店位于新加坡核心商圈乌节路，闹中取静，是真正的城市伊甸园。

Our innovative design has turned what once was a cold building into a vibrant tropical garden. Despite its location at Orchard Road, Singapore’s central business district, the hotel is an enclaved urban oasis away from the hustle and bustle of city life.

在诞生之初，这座建筑堪称惊世之作，而直到几十年后的今天，这一极具原创性的建筑都不失个性和魅力。新加坡香格里拉花园翼酒店仍被视为亚洲，乃至是世界顶级的豪华酒店。它在新加坡乌节路的闹市深处，迎来送往着一批批来自世界各地的客人。

Upon its opening, the project was hailed as a masterpiece. Decades later, this highly original building still retains its character and charm. Shangri-La's Garden Wing in Singapore continues to be regarded as Asia's –  if not the world's – most luxurious hotel. It is located deep in the downtown area on Singapore's Orchard Road and attracts guests from all over the world with its unique beauty.

花园翼共161间客房，每间客房都拥有漂浮式半月形露台。露台连成一片，连绵不绝，乳白色带有颗粒感的墙面仿佛海底珊瑚一般，加上郁郁葱葱的植物花草，为建筑带来几分童话气息，又仿佛一处惬意的城市绿洲。

The Garden Wing has a total of 161 guest rooms, each complemented with a floating curvilinear balcony the are all connected for a continuous fauna garland. The milky white grainy walls mimic the corals on the seabed, and the lush plants and flowers evoke a fairytale atmosphere to the building, while creating an inviting and cosy urban oasis for all who visit.

这些空中垂直花园，不仅提供绿荫与装饰，为客人带来适宜的温度，又巧妙过渡了公共空间与私人空间，凸显出城市中绿色植物的重要性。客人在房间可尽览窗外的城市景色及泳池风光，而在走廊侧还可俯瞰精致的热带花园造景。

These vertical gardens in the sky not only provide shade and decoration to regulate  comfortable temperatures for guests, they also allow for a subtle transition between public and private spaces, highlighting the importance of greenery in the city. Guests can enjoy both the city view and pool view from their room windows, while also overlooking the exquisite tropical garden landscaping on the corridor side.

该项目建立之初，WATG所面临的最大挑战是如何将一个原高层酒店改造为客房空间更大、更奢华且有低矮阳台的建筑。团队汲取自然灵感，最后才决定采用曲线设计来配合原始建筑的拱形结构。

At the beginning of the project, the biggest challenge WATG faced was to transform a former high-rise hotel into a building with larger, more luxurious rooms and low-rise balconies. Taking inspiration and cues from nature, the team finally decided to implement a curvilinear design to match the arched structure of the original building.

郁郁葱葱的植被为大堂中庭以及走廊增添了色彩和私密度，茂密的树叶、瀑布、桥梁和小径等景观细节令其更似世外桃源般的存在，亦更符合新加坡“花园城市”的形象。该项目的落成亦标志着“香格里拉酒店集团”——这个让世界刮目相待的亚洲豪华酒店帝国就此崛起。

An abundance of vegetation introduces colour and privacy to the lobby atrium and corridors. Landscape details such as lush foliage, waterfalls, bridges and paths imbue the interior with a paradise-like ambience, making it more in line with the image of Singapore’s “Garden City”. The completion of this project also marks the rise of "Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts", an Asian luxury hospitality empire that continues to amaze the world.