10 Jun 2022
Frasers Property’s North Park Residences and Northpoint City conferred World Gold Winner and World Silver Winner respectively at FIABCI World Prix d’Excellence Awards 2022
Frasers Property’s integrated development – Northpoint City and North Park Residences – offers great convenience and accessibility with its seamless connection to the public transportation network, including the Yishun Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station and air-conditioned bus interchange as well as its proximity to the upcoming North-South Corridor.
Frasers Property Limited (“Frasers Property”, and together with its subsidiaries, the “Group”) today announced that its properties North Park Residences and Northpoint City, which make up the largest integrated development in Northern Singapore, have won top international accolades at FIABCI World Prix d’Excellence Awards 2022. North Park Residences has been named the World Gold Winner under the Residential Mid Rise Category, while Northpoint City has been recognised as the World Silver Winner in the Retail Category.
In recent years, the Group also achieved two World Silver Winner awards under the Mixed-Use Development and Retail categories for another of its integrated development, Watertown and Waterway Point, at the 2020 FIABCI World Prix d’Excellence Awards. To date, the Group has garnered a total of 14 prestigious awards at both the FIABCI World Prix d’Excellence Awards and FIABCI Singapore Property Awards (refer Annex).
Mr Lim Wei Ping (right), Vice President, Developments & Projects, Frasers Property Singapore, receiving the two world awards on behalf of Frasers Property from Mr Jordi Ribó, FIABCI World President
Ms Soon Su Lin, Chief Executive Officer of Frasers Property Singapore, said: “We are honoured that our strong real estate capabilities across assets continues to be recognised at FIABCI World Prix d’Excellence Awards since 2013. This year, another of our integrated developments in Singapore – North Park Residences and Northpoint City – has impressed the international panel of judges not just with its customer-centric design and functionality, but also for its positive impact on the community and environment. We have successfully brought the 15-minute city concept to various parts of Singapore, as we create shared, vibrant places for the community to live, work, play and bond. Aligned with Frasers Property’s Purpose – Inspiring experiences, creating places for good, we strive to set higher benchmarks in the built environment with our innovative, inclusive and sustainable spaces and solutions.”
FIABCI World Prix d’Excellence Awards recognises projects that exemplify excellence in various areas such as architecture, design, functionality, construction and sustainability.
Northpoint City & North Park Residences
Frasers Property’s integrated development – Northpoint City and North Park Residences – offers great convenience and accessibility with its seamless connection to the public transportation network, including the Yishun Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station and air-conditioned bus interchange as well as its proximity to the upcoming North-South Corridor.
In recognition of the integrated development’s environmentally-friendly design, the Singapore’s Building and Construction Authority (BCA) has conferred both Northpoint City and North Park Residences a Green Mark GoldPLUS rating. Northpoint City’s South Wing has also secured a green club loan for the refinancing of existing loans relating to the development of Northpoint City South Wing.
Northpoint City, the largest mall in the northern part of Singapore to date, houses over 400 retail and dining outlets across two retail wings, a rooftop garden and a public library. The mall also serves as a key venue for the surrounding community to interact, through a 4,400 sqm town plaza for hosting events and a community club, the first to be co-located within a mall in Singapore. It encourages cycling as a low-carbon mobility option by providing over 500 sheltered bicycle parking lots. Visitors can easily cycle to and from the neighbourhood amenities hub as a last mile transportation solution, and continue their commute by walking, or riding on trains or buses.
Completed in 2018, North Park Residences sits atop Northpoint City and offers lifestyle amenities and facilities such as swimming pools with jacuzzies, gymnasiums, function rooms, gardens and more. The 99-year leasehold condominium provides sheltered and barrier-free pathways for direct access to its surrounding amenities. Its 920 units ranging from one-bedders to five-bedroom homes have been fully sold.
With lush landscaping across the pathways and facades, North Park Residences also offers accessibility to nearby parks. It scores a green plot ratio of 4.37 that exceeds the regulatory target of 4.0. Residents of North Park Residences enjoy direct access to Northpoint City through a linkway filled with flora and fauna. They can also opt for a car-lite lifestyle as the neighbourhood of Yishun boasts a 15.5km dedicated cycling path, with a 10km route along or under the MRT tracks that links to neighbouring Woodlands and Khatib.
To enhance the safety of pedestrians waiting at the public areas, a dedicated vehicular ramp to the residential carpark at the third level segregates resident vehicular traffic from commercial users, while safety bollards are also installed at every lift lobby on the third-floor carpark.
As part of its efforts to promote an inclusive community, the development is fitted with universal design features that aid in the movement of users with physical and visual challenges, while improving the independent mobility of wheelchair-users. These include braille lift buttons to aid the visually challenged as well as handrails, ramps and wheelchair-accessible routes to facilitate the movement of wheelchair users, families with baby strollers and those with physical challenges. Guided paths at the carpark are also available to support way-finding for users.