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Oasia Hotel

skyscraper in Singapore

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ24036204 ↗
Source-derived summary

There are two Oasia Hotels in Singapore, owned by Far East Hospitality Management.

Novena

Oasia Hotel Novena is an upscale hotel of 428 rooms located in Singapore, managed by Far East Hospitality Management. It is the first hotel in Singapore to feature a direct underpass to an MRT station. Facilities include a 24-hour gym, swimming pool, meeting rooms and spa. The hotel also has a club lounge on the 22nd storey with its own private pool.

Downtown

Oasia Hotel Downtown is a 193-meter skyscraper in the Central Business District (CBD) in Singapore. Designed by the Woha architecture firm and completed in 2016, the tower is characterized by hanging gardens and greenery on the outer facade over 27 floors. The building took 3rd place in the Emporis Skyscraper Award 2016. In 2018 it was one of the five finalists in the Frankfurt International Skyscraper Award together with the eventual winner Torre Reforma as well as Maha Nakhon, Beirut Terraces and Chaoyang Park Plaza.

Oasia Residence

There is also an Oasia Residence which is located at West Coast.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Oasia, Hotel and skyscraper is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24036204. Authority coordinates are 1.276, 103.844. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2016 and 2018.

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