Six Battery Road, formerly the Standard Chartered Bank Building, is a high-rise

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located in the

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of Singapore. It is located at 6 Battery Road, in

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. The tower is located adjacent to the Bank of China Building and faces the

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. It is a class-A office building and houses the offices of several multi-national companies. The development had a net floor area of , as of 30 June 2007, and has direct access to

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. At its completion, it was the largest building for the

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worldwide and also represented the largest single investment by a

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company. The building is on a 999-year leasehold.

History

Six Battery Road, completed in 1984, was designed by P&T Architects & Engineers Ltd. and RSP Architects Planners & Engineers(Pte) Ltd. The development involved several firms, including CapitaLand Commercial Limited, Clover Properties Private Limited, Hazama Gumi, CapitaLand Limited, Lighting Design Partnership, Meinhardt (Singapore) Private Limited, and Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP. The building was inaugurated on 24 October 1984 by Lord Barber, then chairman of the Standard Chartered Bank Group, which served as the anchor tenant. Subsequently, the 1st, 20th, 21st, 43rd, and 44th floors underwent renovation, completed in March 2002."

Architecture

Six Battery Road has a baltic

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granite exterior and is mainly made out of

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. Despite the building being a British investment, it was

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(Chinese

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) tested. Even the opening date was chosen as it was a propitious day according to the Chinese Almanac.

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