Artyzen Singapore

Artyzen Singapore opened on 24 November 2023 on Cuscaden Road, the first hotel outside Greater China for Shun Tak Holdings' Artyzen Hospitality Group. The 142-room tower, designed by ONG&ONG with interiors by Nic Graham & Associates, replaced the 1940s Villa Marie mansion and is anchored by two restaurants from Melbourne chef Victor Liong.

The place

The hotel stands on Cuscaden Road in the West Orchard neighbourhood, a quieter, embassy-heavy pocket a short walk from the Orchard Road shopping belt, the Singapore Botanic Gardens — a UNESCO World Heritage Site — and Singapore's main foreign-embassy cluster.

The concept

Artyzen Singapore opened on 24 November 2023 as the first hotel outside Greater China for Artyzen Hospitality Group, the Hong Kong-listed Shun Tak Holdings' lifestyle-hotel arm, timed to the group's tenth anniversary alongside a sister opening in Shanghai. The 20-storey tower, by local architecture firm ONG&ONG with interiors by Nic Graham & Associates, replaced Villa Marie, a 1940s tropical-garden mansion built by botanist Tan Hoon Siang — the hotel's design references the site's plant-filled past through trellised concrete columns and sky gardens rather than preserving any part of the original house, which did not survive the redevelopment. The 142 rooms and suites, spread across floors eight to twenty, all include balconies, a detail the brand positions as a differentiator against sealed-window Orchard Road towers.

Dining & wellness

Café Quenino handles all-day dining and turns into a cocktail bar at night, while Quenino by Victor Liong (QVL) is the fine-dining venue, both helmed by Melbourne chef Victor Liong of the two-hatted Lee Ho Fook, cooking through what he describes as a 'local-first' lens shaped by his Malaysian-Chinese heritage. A wellness floor holds a 100-square-metre gym and two yoga pavilions, and the Roof Garden tops the tower with a 25-metre cantilevered infinity pool, a sunken lounge and an herb garden.