架构师提供的文本描述。在一九七六年落成时，珠江银行公寓楼是新加坡最高密度最高的住宅结构，共有三十八层楼高，马蹄形建筑群的总高度超过四百三十英尺，有一千五百多名居民居住，由建筑师谭成雄设计。

Text description provided by the architects. At the time of its completion in 1976, the Pearl Bank Apartment complex was the highest-density and tallest residential structure in Singapore at 38 stories.  The total height of the horseshoe-shaped complex exceeded 430’ tall and was home for over 1,500 inhabitants.  Designed by Tan Cheng Siong of Archurban Architects & Planners, Pearl Bank served as a beacon of contemporary residential design and acted as precedent to the subsequent high-density urban development in Singapore and throughout southeast Asia.

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在组织上，珠岸公寓的一部分是一座圆柱形的塔楼，围绕着较低层的西面内部庭院。这种方向不仅减少了下午太阳带来的热量，而且对于捕捉珠山山顶上的壮丽景色也是至关重要的。

Organizationally, the parti of the Pearl Bank Apartments is a ¾ cylindrical tower enveloping a west-facing interior courtyard on the lower level.  Not only did this orientation minimize solar heat gain from the afternoon sun, it also was vital to capturing the magnificent views afforded at the top of Pearl’s Hill. 

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塔的圆柱形提出了各种结构方法，包括十个排列的剪力墙，其质量是相邻单元之间的物理隔震和隔音。剪力墙除了必要的柱和循环芯外，还具有结构和美学功能。为了保持最初部分的纯洁性，结构部件遵循塔的径向组织，并贯穿整个结构。

The cylindrical shape of the tower suggested various structural methods, including the ten arrayed shear walls whose mass serve as physical and acoustic separation between adjacent units.  The shear walls, in addition to the necessary columns and circulation cores that complete the complex’s structural system, serve both structural and aesthetic functions.  In keeping with the purity of the initial parti, the structural components follow the radial organization of the tower and are expressed throughout.

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辐射式结构也是单元布局的重要组成部分。建筑师将服务区和公用室推入室内庭院，以最大限度地利用光线、通风，以及对该计划外部272个生活区的看法。同样独特的是，谭成雄和建筑事务所采用了一种类似于勒·柯布西耶(Le Cor布西耶)在其开创性住宅小区中采用的分层次方案。这种做法极大地影响了立面的开窗，由于分裂层的配置在外部边缘表示为L形、Z形和条形窗口的矩阵，而内部开窗则是条形窗口和垂直/水平循环的组合(与内部服务和公用空间的规划组织保持一致)。

The radial organization also was a key component of the layout of the units.  The architects pushed the service areas and utilities rooms to the interior courtyard which maximizes light, ventilation, and views for the 272 living areas on the exterior rim of the plan.  Also unique would be Tan Cheng Siong and Archurban’s use of a split-level scheme similar to the approach employed by Le Corbusier in his seminal Unité d'Habitation residential complex.  This approach drastically affected the fenestration of the façade, as the split level configuration is expressed on the outer rim as a matrix of L-shaped, Z-shaped, and strip windows – the interior fenestration, on the other hand, is a composition of strip windows, and vertical/horizontal circulation (in keeping with the programmatic organization of service and utility spaces on the interior).

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除了住宅单元(八套顶层公寓、四十四间卧室公寓、一百八十四间三居室公寓及四十八间两居室公寓，合共二百七十二间)外，明珠银行大厦亦设有商业中心、停车场及28楼社区面积，名为“天空公园”。除了公共区域、游泳池和会所等设施外，新加坡也是此类设施中的第一家。

In addition to the residential units (eight penthouses, forty four-bedroom apartments, one hundred eighty-four three-bedroom apartments and forty-eight two bedroom apartments, 272 in total), the Pearl Bank complex also features a commercial center, parking structure, and a 28th-floor community area aptly named “Sky Park”.  This communal space, in addition to amenities including common areas, swimming pools, and clubhouses, were the first of their kind in Singapore.