Orchard Central

Orchard Central

Location	Orchard Road, Singapore
Opening date	2 July 2009
Developer	Far East Organisation and OCBC Bank
Management	Orchard Central Private Limited
Architect	DP Architects
No. of stores and services	400 maximum
No. of anchor tenants	0
Total retail floor area	387,988 sq ft
Parking	Levels 9 & 10 (entire levels) Levels 5 & 8 (partial levels)
No. of floors	12 floors and 2 basement floor retail
Website	Orchard Central

Orchard Central under construction, taken on 23 April 2008 from the Pan Pacific Singapore hotel

Orchard Central (Chinese: 乌节中央城) is a shopping centre in Singapore. It is also Singapore's tallest vertical mall. This shopping centre was officially opened on July 2, 2009. Orchard Central sits on the land previously occupied by Specialists Shopping Centre.

Orchard Central was designed by DP Architects. It is designed as Singapore's first vertical mall, and it consists of 12 floors above ground and 2 basement levels. It also features a "super escalator", which takes pedestrians on street level directly up to Level 4. The mall is served by a total of 52 escalators (including 6 super escalators) and 12 glass elevators..

Orchard Central has a 160m frontage along Orchard Road.

Orchard Central Art Trail

Orchard Central has artworks that are permanent displayed in clustered located around the mall. The display is worth over SGD$9 million. Artworks featured in the display were curated by Singapore National Arts Council. The total development cost of the project is estimated to be more than SGD$650 million.

Artworks featured in this display were specially commissioned, and they were done by artists from countries like the US, Japan, Australia and Denmark.

External links

• Orchard Central website
• Information about Orchard Central on Singaporesights
• Photoset of Orchard Central on Flickr