Aman’s first Singapore address is going up on the site of a tower that is no longer there. The two homes planned for its summit are each larger than the colonial bungalows the design borrows from.
Ships sit at anchor off Singapore’s southern coast most hours of the day, waiting on a berth. From the upper floors of what is rising at 8 Shenton Way, they are the view, strung out between the green belt and the horizon.
The building is called The Skywaters. It is 305 metres and 63 storeys, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill for a consortium led by Perennial Holdings, and it stands where the AXA Tower stood for close to forty years. When it finishes in 2028 it will be the tallest building in Singapore.
Aman has levels 24 to 30. Above and around that sit fewer than thirty residences, the brand’s first homes in the city, drawn by Kerry Hill Architects.
The bungalow
Kerry Hill Architects has worked out of Singapore for decades and has built most of the Aman properties that people picture when they picture Aman. For this one the practice went to the black-and-white bungalows, the raised colonial houses on the island’s old plantation roads: dark timber framing against pale render, deep eaves, verandahs cut for shade and moving air in the years before anyone cooled a room mechanically.
What survives the move upward is the proportion. Rooms run long and open at one end. Natural materials, layered textures, a lot of floor given over to nothing in particular. The homes range from two to five bedrooms, each with a landscaped terrace, and some carry private pools, entertainment rooms and wellness spaces that can be reconfigured.
A Sky Villa terrace at Aman Residences, Singapore · Courtesy of Aman
The summit
Two Sky Villas take the apex. Each runs past 1,700 square metres, a little over 18,000 square feet, with a private pool, floor-to-ceiling glass and terraces wide enough to plant. The views turn through 360 degrees, Marina Bay on one side and the South China Sea on the other.
Aman revealed the pair in June, at the point when the tower had climbed past a third of its final height. The first Aman-branded residence in the building had already sold, at a reported 6,501 Singapore dollars a square foot, a record for the city.
A verandah works by holding one wall open to the weather. Put it six hundred feet up and the weather is shipping lanes and rain coming in off the strait.
The Splendid EditDownstairs
The hotel floors carry an Aman Spa and Wellness Centre, a members-only bar, the signature dining rooms and access to Aman Club, the private network that now runs alongside most new Aman openings. Residents get the hotel’s service without leaving the building, which is the argument for the whole category.
The site matters as much as the height. Shenton Way sits at the join between the central business district, Marina Bay and the stretch of reclaimed coast the government has earmarked as the Greater Southern Waterfront. Whatever is built there over the next two decades will be built below these windows.
Aman’s Asian map has filled in quickly, Tokyo, Kyoto, Seoul, Bangkok, Shanghai, with Niseko dated for 2030. Singapore was the obvious absence. It arrives in 2028, at the top of the skyline rather than beside it.
Property description, design attribution, residence mix and Sky Villa dimensions from Aman’s own Aman Singapore pages, accessed 23 October 2026. Tower height, storey count, architect, consortium and construction progress as reported in the Singapore property press following Aman’s June 2026 announcement.
Photography courtesy of Aman — © Aman