That terracotta-toned screen of horizontal aluminium louvres wrapping a 30-storey tower above Orchard Road is the first thing Singapore's design community noticed when COMO Metropolitan Singapore opened in 2012 — a facade treatment by Singapore practice SCDA Architects, led by Chan Soo Khian, that recalls traditional timber brise-soleil while functioning as a precision-engineered sun-shading system for the glazed floors behind. At intervals across the podium levels, planted terraces push through the louvre skin, softening what might otherwise be an austere curtain of warm bronze into something closer to a hillside garden suspended above the street. The 156-room tower sits within the Como Orchard development on Bideford Road, just off the main Orchard shopping corridor, at a remove that gives it genuine quiet for a city-centre address. Interiors by COMO's in-house design team maintain the controlled restraint the brand has become known for across its portfolio. Guest rooms are finished in pale oak flooring, walnut-trimmed headboards upholstered in charcoal fabric, and a palette of warm grey, chalk white, and acid yellow — the last appearing in scatter cushions and occasional rugs, providing precisely calibrated punctuation against the neutral field. Lift lobbies are lined in woven textile wall panels and polished brass doors set against geometric slate-toned stone floors, the combination carrying a quiet confidence that avoids ostentation. Floor-to-ceiling windows frame views across the low-rise residential streets of River Valley, with the pagoda roofline of the Sri Thendayuthapani Temple visible in the middle distance.

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COMO Metropolitan Singapore marks a debut homecoming for our Singapore-founded company. It's the first time COMO Group’s signature brands – COMO Hotels and Resorts, a multi-label fashion retail space curated by Club21, Michelin-starred gourmet concepts, and a new urban wellness space by COMO Shambhala — will be housed under one prestigious address: COMO Orchard.