Awarded to Novena Point Pte Ltd in 2002 by the Urban Redevelopment Authority, the site is located at the Fringe Centre of the Novena Planning Area, and is intended to be an urban development providing an integrated living and working environment with convenient links to Novena MRT Station.
The Square 2 development operates as an essential connective component within the Novena Square region, integrating Novena Medical Centre and Square 2 Shopping Centre with a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station and its extensive underground linkages including the nearby Tan Tock Seng Hospital. The project strengthens ground-level pedestrian networks of covered walkways and underpasses and programmatically merges private medical suites with a carpark and public retail outlets. A bridge with travellator provides Square 2 with direct access to the hospital facilities.
Aside from reinforcing circulation patterns, the project assimilates the many elements of its urban fabric into a unified whole via responsive materiality, massing and structure. The use of blue-green facade glass negotiates between the deep blue glazing of Novena Square and green elements of Tan Tock Seng Hospital. Overall massing aligns the blocks of Square 2 with adjacent Novena Square. A mega-truss structural system spans the existing MRT network below, working jointly to provide the new carpark with a regularised column grid for maximum accessibility and to suspend portions of the retail podium over the existing MRT structure, which does not cater to loading from above.
The 11-storey development is organised into three zones: four levels of retail, three levels of parking floors, and medical suites located on the uppermost four levels. Medical centre suites are organised about a large internal courtyard, providing internal views and a space of repose for visitors and staff.
