Perkins+Will to Design Precedent-Setting Singapore Research Campus

The San Francisco office of Perkins+Will, winner of an international design competition for the project, has been retained by Singapore’s National Research Foundation to design ‘CREATE’ (Campus for Research Excellence And Technological Enterprise), a precedent-setting, 650,000 sq. ft. scientific research center to be located at the National University of Singapore’s new seven acre University Town campus. CREATE’s design will surpass current performance benchmarks for scientific research facilities in the tropics while raising the bar for environmental sustainability.

As part of Singapore’s accelerating national thrust towards an inventive, innovative and entrepreneurial economy, CREATE will be a unique, multi-national, multi-disciplinary research enterprise that stimulates innovation, discovery and entrepreneurship through interaction and collaboration with scientists and engineers from around the globe. The campus will include three mid-rise buildings and a high-rise tower. The tower’s first two floors will serve as part of the Olympic Village for the first International Youth Olympics in 2010.