The soaring atrium of Conrad Singapore Orchard hotel. Above, light streams rather ... has long been strategic in marketing the city’s green spaces to the tourism sector, including Gardens ...

It’s been behind most of Singapore distinctive, tropical green hotels, beginning with its decade-old Parkroyal Collection Pickering conception, also part of the parent eco-minded Pan Pacific group.

Rarely at a hotel ... Singapore has four of them, traveling up, down, and perhaps back in time. Architect John Portman designed this iconic 12-story tower around a dramatic open atrium in 1982 ...

A 21-storey atrium topped by a skylight lowers the hotel’s temperature ... it offers a great view across the Singapore Strait, while looking inland shows a sea of green, out of which the ...

Now, as part of the hotel’s six-month overhaul by Kuala Lumpur-based practice DesignWilkes, this iconic atrium has been appropriately highlighted with the designers cladding it in clay – a reference ...

plus the new Mondrian Singapore Duxton and Pan Pacific Orchard hotels. By Kathryn Romeyn “Singapore is Asia for beginners,” says Cher and the Loneliest Elephant director Jonathan Finnigan ...

Google Singapore ... can jump on the hotel’s Sampan boats and float through its luxury shopping center. If you’re feeling lucky, try your hand at the world’s largest atrium casino’s ...