Suntec City Complex & The "Fountain of Wealth"

Why was it built this way? Developed by a consortium of 11 Hong Kong tycoons (led by Li Ka-shing and Run Run Shaw), instead of aligning five office towers in a straight row, architects Tsao & McKown arranged four 45-story towers and one shorter 18-story tower in an asymmetrical semi-circle. Right in the sunken plaza at the center stands an 85-ton, 21-meter bronze ring where every water jet sprays inward toward the center and drains down into the underground mall rather than spraying outward.

The Unbroken Feng Shui Thread: The entire Suntec City master plan models An Open Left Palm Receiving Prosperity: the 18-story tower represents the Thumb, and the four 45-story towers form the Four Fingers curving inward in a classic Four-Mountain Embrace. The sunken central plaza is the Palm Center (Internal Bright Hall), crowned by the 85-ton bronze ring (Metal element) symbolizing a Golden Ring of Wealth. Crucially, under Classical Water Method Feng Shui, water spraying outward scatters fortune; therefore, all jets are engineered to arc inward into the center of the bronze ring, embodying Metal Generating Water (Jin Sheng Shui) and Pooling Wealth in the Palm.