One-north

The significance of the name one-north is from the fact that Singapore is located one-degree to the north of the equator.

As part of the survey, the one-north MRT station was initially named 'Portsdown'. The options had involved 'one-north', 'Portsdown' and 'Ayer Rajah'. In the end, one-north was selected in January 2006. Construction began on 12 March that year. The station was opened on 8 October 2011, along with Stages 4 and 5 of the Circle Line.

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Biopolis is a biomedical R&D hub at one-north. It houses public research institutes and private research organisations.

This campus is dedicated to providing space for biomedical research and development activities and promoting peer review and collaboration among the private and public scientific community.

In May 2021, Wilmar International relocated its global headquarters to the Biopolis precinct.{{Cite web |title=New Global HQ |url=https://www.wilmar-international.com/annualreport2021/05-new-global-hq.html |access-date=2022-08-21 |website=Wilmar International}}

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Occupying 30 hectares of land within one-north, Fusionopolis is envisioned to be an R&D hub for infocomm technology, media, physical sciences and engineering industries.

It houses various research organizations, high-tech companies, government agencies, retail outlets, and serviced apartments in one location. It is served by the one-north MRT station connected to the basement of the building.

On 26 October 2021, Razer officially opened its Southeast Asia headquarters in one-north. Aside from its offices, the seven-storey headquarters also houses the first RazerStore and RazerCafe in Singapore where visitors are able to view the company's latest products and order a drink prepared by a robotic barista arm.{{Cite web |last=Leo |first=Lakeisha |title=Gaming firm Razer opens new Southeast Asia headquarters in one-north |url=https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/gaming-firm-razer-opens-new-southeast-asia-headquarters-one-north-cafe-store-2270501 |access-date=2022-08-21 |website=CNA |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Salim |first=Zafirah |date=2021-11-03 |title=Office, store, cafe under one roof: Here's a look at Razer's new S$100M SEA HQ at one-north |url=https://vulcanpost.com/768191/a-look-at-razer-sea-hq-one-north-singapore/ |access-date=2022-08-21 |website=Vulcan Post |language=en-US}}

A 19-hectare hub created for the infocomm, media, physical sciences and engineering sectors, Mediapolis plays a vital role in Singapore's infocomm and media ecosystem.{{Cite web|title=JTC {{!}} Mediapolis|url=https://www.jtc.gov.sg/industrial-land-and-space/Pages/mediapolis.aspx|access-date=2020-08-16|website=www.jtc.gov.sg}} When fully completed, the hub will house a media ecosystem housing soundstages with green screen capabilities, digital production and broadcasting facilities, facilities for interactive digital media and R&D activities, facilities for computer-generated imagery and visual effects, post-production facilities, games and animation facilities, digital media schools, business parks, work lofts and incubators, and intellectual property creation and digital rights management.{{Cite web|title=Mediapolis @ one-north: Adding growth to Singapore's Media Ecosystem|url=http://www.imda.gov.sg/news-and-events/Media-Room/archived/mda/Media-Releases/2008/mediapolis--onenorth-adding-growth-to-singapores-media-ecosystem|access-date=2020-08-16|website=Infocomm Media Development Authority|language=en}}

Opened on 15 January 2014, Infinite Studios is a 1.2-hectare soundstage facility and is Singapore's first such facility.{{Cite web|last=Frater|first=Patrick|date=2014-01-15|title=Infinite Studios Open In Singapore|url=https://variety.com/2014/biz/asia/infinite-studios-open-in-singapore-1201058000/|access-date=2020-08-16|website=Variety|language=en}}

On 8 December 2015,{{Cite web|title=Mediacorp: Mediacorp Campus officially opened by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong|url=http://www.mediacorp.sg/en/corporate/mediacorp-in-the-news/media-releases/mediacorp-campus-5947114|access-date=2020-08-16|website=Mediacorp|language=en}} Mediacorp moved from the old Mediacorp Caldecott Broadcasting Centre to the new {{convert|800000|sqft|m2}} 12-storey Mediacorp Campus, which is branded as an architectural landmark in Mediapolis.{{Cite web|title=Mediacorp: Mediacorp Campus|url=http://www.mediacorp.sg/en/corporate/about/mediacorp-campus-5936156|access-date=2020-08-16|website=Mediacorp|language=en}}

In the heart of Mediapolis, ALICE@MEDIAPOLIS is a business park created for startups and as a base for established organisations. It offers startup spaces, shared media facilities, flexible work-live-play-learn spaces, a childcare centre, and retail outlets.{{Cite web|title=Where is ALICE {{!}} Located right in the heart of Mediapolis @ one-north|url=https://aliceatmediapolis.com.sg/where.php|access-date=2020-08-16|website=Alice|language=en}} The Deliveroo Food Market is also housed in the building, featuring 10 kitchens and a 40-seat dining space, all based on a fully automated ordering system.{{Cite web|title=Deliveroo launches dine-in area at One-north, eyes expansion abroad|url=https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/walk-order-and-dine-new-deliveroo-food-market-one-north|access-date=2020-08-16|website=TODAYonline}}

On 11 August 2022, Grab officially opened its 9-storey headquarters located across Mediapolis. With an area of more than 42,000 square metres, the new Grab HQ houses approximately 3,000 employees, an R&D centre, and the first GrabMerchant centre.{{Cite web |last=Tan |first=Sue-Ann |date=2022-08-11 |title=New Grab HQ in S'pore will house merchant centre to help small firms grow online |url=https://www.straitstimes.com/business/companies-markets/new-grab-hq-in-singapore-will-house-merchant-centre-to-help-small-firms-grow-online |access-date=2022-08-21 |website=The Straits Times |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Salim |first=Zafirah |date=2022-08-11 |title=Grab CEO, DPM Wong recount Grab's early days - A look at its new S'pore HQ at one-north |url=https://vulcanpost.com/799449/grab-singapore-hq-one-north-office-tour/ |access-date=2022-08-21 |website=Vulcan Post |language=en-US}}

In 2024, the government released 2 plots of land for tender in Media Circle Road for residential development to bring in people to live in the Mediapolis region. One of the condominium is Bloomsbury Residences{{Cite web |title=New One-North Condominium - Bloomsbury Residences at Media Circle |url=https://www.thebloomsburyresidences.sg/ |access-date=2025-03-15 |website=Bloomsbury Residences |language=en-US}} by Qingjian Realty that will see 358 condominium units.

As the corporate and business support cluster of the one-north precinct, Vista houses high-rise offices, business hotels, retail-cum-entertainment centres, and residential developments. It is close to the Buona Vista MRT station.{{Cite web|title=JTC {{!}} Vista|url=https://www.jtc.gov.sg/industrial-land-and-space/Pages/vista.aspx|access-date=2020-08-16|website=www.jtc.gov.sg}}

Completed in the third quarter of 2013, Metropolis is a pair of Grade A office towers (23 storeys and 21 storeys), offering a total of 110,000 square metres of office space. It currently houses multinational corporations such as Shell and P&G.{{Cite web|title=THE METROPOLIS - SINGAPORE NEW BUSINESS CENTRE|url=https://themetropolis.com.sg/home.php?page=about_us|access-date=2020-08-16|website=themetropolis.com.sg}}{{Cite web|date=16 August 2020|title=A Guide to one-north|url=https://www.jtc.gov.sg/industrial-land-and-space/Documents/one-north/events/one-north%20Estate%20Map%20-%20Pages.pdf|website=JTC}}

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The Star is a 15-storey mixed use complex integrating a shopping mall, The Star Vista, and a performing arts centre known as The Star Performing Arts Centre.{{Cite news|title=The Star Performing Arts Centre {{!}} Event Venue Singapore|language=en-US|work=The Star PAC|url=http://www.thestar.sg/corporate-information/|access-date=2018-07-29}} It is located near Buona Vista MRT station on the East West line.

Housing the regional headquarters for GlaxoSmithKline's Pharmaceutical, Vaccines and Consumer Healthcare businesses in the Asia region, GSK Asia House is a 14,000 square metre, 8-storey building, that has a capacity of up to 1,000 employees.{{Cite web|last=Woo|first=Jacqueline|date=2015-03-11|title=Drugmaker GSK setting up new global HQ for Asia in Singapore|url=https://www.straitstimes.com/business/economy/drugmaker-gsk-setting-up-new-global-hq-for-asia-in-singapore|access-date=2020-08-16|website=The Straits Times|language=en}}

The headquarters of the Ministry of Education (MOE) is located in this area, adjacent to the Metropolis.

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BLOCK71 Singapore, a decades-old flatted factory within Ayer Rajah Industrial Estate, was repurposed in 2010 by the Media Development Authority to be part of one-north. Externally, as the oldest building in one-north, it lacks architectural consistency with the rest of the development. Internally, however, it is one of Singapore's high-tech hubs, with dozens of digital startups and VC funds sited directly across the street from Fusionopolis and the one-north MRT Station.

In March 2014, its landlord that the cluster of flatted factories would be expanded to JTC LaunchPad @ one-north, a start-up cluster{{cite news |title=Singapore unveils Silicon Valley- inspired LaunchPad @ one-north |url=https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/top-stories/singapore-unveils-silicon-valley-inspired-launchpad-one-north |access-date=6 April 2019 |work=The Business Times |agency=The Business Times |publisher=The Business Times |date=13 March 2014 |language=en}} also comprising Block 79 (previously the JVC building) and Block 73 (new modular temporary construction).

The start-up cluster hosts the Action Community for Entrepreneurship's International Centre (ACEIC) which helps Singapore start-ups expand overseas by providing resources, advice and access to new networks and markets.{{cite news |title=New centre launched at JTC LaunchPad to help local start-ups expand overseas |url=https://www.straitstimes.com/business/economy/new-centre-launched-at-jtc-launchpad-to-help-local-start-ups-expand-overseas |access-date=6 April 2019 |work=The Straits Times |agency=The Straits Times |publisher=The Straits Times |date=6 September 2017 |language=en}}

Envisioned as a global centre for leadership training and talent development, Nepal Hill will house business schools, corporate universities, and professional service companies.{{Cite web|title=JTC {{!}} Nepal Hill|url=https://www.jtc.gov.sg/industrial-land-and-space/Pages/nepal-hill.aspx|access-date=2020-08-16|website=www.jtc.gov.sg}} Other than colonial bungalows, the area currently comprises ESSEC Business School and Unilever Four Acres Campus.{{Cite web|title=SINGAPORE ANCHORS UNILEVER’S FIRST CORPORATE UNIVERSITY IN ASIA AT LINK@NEPAL HILL|url=https://www.mynewsdesk.com/sg/pressreleases/singapore-anchors-unilever-s-first-corporate-university-in-asia-at-link-nepal-hill-663027|access-date=2020-08-16|website=Mynewsdesk|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Nepal Hill Campus - About Us - Welcome to ESSEC Asia-Pacific|url=https://www.essec.edu/en/pages/about-essec-asia-pacific/about-essec-asia-pacific/nepal-hill-campus/|access-date=2020-08-16|website=www.essec.edu}}

On 11 April 2022, The Ascott Limited officially opened the 324-unit lyf one-north Singapore. Split across two buildings, the property comprises a hotel, serviced residences, and co-living services. Featuring a seven-storey mural art on one of its external walls, lyf one-north Singapore houses the tallest art wall in Singapore.{{Cite web |last=Ang |first=Prisca |date=2022-04-11 |title=Ascott launches lyf co-living space in one-north; will sign 150 properties under lyf by 2030 |url=https://www.straitstimes.com/business/ascott-launches-lyf-co-living-space-in-one-north-will-sign-150-properties-under-lyf-by-2030 |access-date=2022-08-21 |website=The Straits Times |language=en}}

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Launched in early 2006, Rochester Park, a part of one-north, is a heritage site located off North Buona Vista Road, featuring several double-storey black-and-white colonial bungalows, a symbol of Singapore's colonial past.

The estate has a long history with the 40 black-and-white bungalows built in the 1940s to accommodate British military soldiers stationed at Pasir Panjang Military Complex and their families.Lim, A P, (1974). Changes in Land Use in the Former British Military Areas in Singapore. Unpublished academic exercise, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore. After the British military pulled out of Singapore in late 1971, the bungalows were handed over to the Singapore government who rented them out mainly to non-Singaporeans.

To provide cultural and recreational facilities for the people in one-north in the present day, Rochester Park has been revitalised into a dining and lifestyle retail hub known as the Rochester Mall.{{Cite web|url=http://rochestermall.com.sg/|title=Welcome To Rochester Mall|website=rochestermall.com.sg|access-date=2018-07-29}} The old black-and-white colonial bungalows in Rochester Park have been preserved under the Urban Redevelopment Authority's conservation guidelines and are now leased to over 30 food and beverage and lifestyle retail tenants.

Rochester Commons is a 17-storey mixed-use tower housing a 5,000 square metre shared executive learning centre, a 135-room business hotel named Citadines, offices, a sky garden, and an amenities deck. The development is connected with the surrounding greenery and 12 heritage bungalows, with 5 bungalows having been restored and repurposed as F&B and retail establishments, by a 'Knowledge Trail' on an elevated pedestrian deck.{{Cite web|last=hermesauto|date=2020-09-09|title=S'pore's first campus-style integrated project in one-north to be completed end-2021|url=https://www.straitstimes.com/business/property/campus-style-integrated-development-rochester-commons-in-one-north-to-be-completed|access-date=2021-05-24|website=The Straits Times|language=en}}

Rochester Park 11 has 11 colonial bungalows turned into a dining and lifestyle retail hub consisting of restaurants, galleries, and spas.Soo, K L, (27 March 2006). [http://www.jtc.gov.sg/newsroom/pressreleases/pages/20060327sp.aspx Welcome Remarks], speech presented at Rochester open house, Singapore. Nine units are taken up by restaurants and bars and a holistic healthcare centre.

Rochester Park 20 is still in the midst of development but has set aside 20 of the colonial bungalows to become a serviced villa resort with retail facilities.Sim, A, (17 January 2007). Cultural-retail landmark to up cool quotient for one-north, The Business Times Singapore.

A large area off Portsdown Road, Wessex is a dominantly residential area within one-north. Built in the 1940s, the colonial style residential estate comprises 26 blocks of walk-up apartments and 58 semi-detached houses. People working in the one-north region are given priority for residences in the estate.{{Cite web|title=JTC {{!}} Wessex|url=https://www.jtc.gov.sg/industrial-land-and-space/Pages/wessex.aspx|access-date=2020-08-16|website=www.jtc.gov.sg}}

An international school known as Tanglin Trust School, is located in the area.

A 5,000 square metre facility, Pixel primarily caters to the digital media sector, serving as a resource centre and focal point for content creators, owners, and game developers, to foster cross-sector collaborations in content creation, delivery, and communication.{{Cite web|title=JTC {{!}} Pixel|url=https://www.jtc.gov.sg/industrial-land-and-space/Pages/pixel.aspx|access-date=2020-08-16|website=www.jtc.gov.sg}}

one-north Park is a community park that is situated in the northern zone of one-north, near the Ministry of Education (MOE) at Buona Vista.{{Cite web|title=one-north Park: Biopolis|url=https://www.nparks.gov.sg/gardens-parks-and-nature/parks-and-nature-reserves/one-north-park-biopolis|access-date=2020-07-05|website=National Parks Board|language=en}}

The last phase of development was completed in 2017.{{Cite news|title=Latest phase of one-north Park to open today|work=TODAYonline|url=https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/latest-phase-one-north-park-open-today|access-date=2018-05-17}}

In the vicinity of one-north Park is Portsdown Swamp, which is a freshwater swamp where white-throated kingfishers, yellow bitterns, ducks, and other wildlife have been spotted.{{Cite web |last=OwYong |first=Alan |date=2024-04-17 |title=A Freshwater Wetland Oasis at one-north. |url=https://singaporebirdgroup.wordpress.com/2024/04/17/a-freshwater-wetland-oasis-at-one-north-crescent/ |access-date=2024-06-02 |website=Singapore Bird Group |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2024-05-05 |title=Portsdown Swamp, One-north birding |url=https://potoo.is/portsdown-swamp-trip-report/ |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=The Potoo |language=en}}

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