NoMad Hilton Singapore to open late 2026 as brand's first Asia Pacific hotel
The 173-room hotel replaces the former Faber House and pairs a WOHA facade with a Havana-style cocktail bar and a 1,860-piece art collection.
NoMad Hilton Singapore is set to open in late 2026, marking the brand's first hotel in Asia Pacific. The property is at the former Faber House site at the Cairnhill intersection on Orchard Road, minutes from Singapore's Central Business District and close to the historic Peranakan shophouses of Emerald Hill.
The building spans 10,225 square metres and holds 173 guestrooms and suites, including 25 suites, across 12 levels. It is designed by Singapore architecture firm WOHA, with interiors by Los Angeles studio Kevin Klein Design, and developed in partnership with local property group UOL Group.
WOHA's design wraps the tower in a cascading 14-storey waterfall and a vertical green facade, giving Orchard Road a biophilic landmark where an office block once stood. The hotel is a joint reimagining of the site by WOHA and UOL, translating NoMad's New York roots into a distinctly local frame.
What the rooms and suites look like
Guests arrive on the fifth level, where an open-air reception leads into Lù bar and a terrace with a pool overlooking Orchard Road. The rooms above are finished in rich marble, burlwood, custom wool rugs and paravent screens, a palette pitched by the brand as refined contemporary luxury.
The room mix runs to 71 'Atelier' rooms of 32 square metres, each with a living area and a bathtub. They sit alongside 25 suites split between 42-square-metre 'Parlour Suites' and 43-square-metre 'NoMad Suites', both with double-sink bathrooms and dedicated living spaces.
Pale blue and green walls run through the interiors, a palette Kevin Klein Design drew from the Peranakan shophouses nearby. The scheme reinterprets NoMad's layered aesthetic through Art Deco detailing and Peranakan tradition, rather than repeating the brand's European or New York look wholesale.
What is on the menu
NoMad Grill is at the top of the building, under a high, tin-coffered ceiling and ornamental columns that echo classic New York dining rooms. The restaurant is built around dry aged meats cooked over wood fire, a raw bar, seafood and seasonal produce alongside established NoMad menu favourites.
Beside it, The Tropicana Club is a craft cocktail bar built on the golden age of cabaret and 1940s and 1950s Havana glamour. It draws on both Havana's Tropicana Club, which opened in 1939, and Singapore's own Tropicana Club, a nightspot that opened in 1968, reworked through a contemporary NoMad lens.
At street level, Sticky Fingers is a new NoMad concept serving house-made gourmet soft-serve sundaes, the brand's first venture into that format. It is apart from the hotel's other dining and drinking venues, giving passers-by on Orchard Road a lower-priced entry point into the property.
The art programme running through the hotel
More than 1,860 artworks will run through the hotel, curated through what the brand describes as a distinctly Singaporean lens. Ninety per cent of the works are by Singapore-based artists, spanning oil on copper, acrylic photography and large-scale bas-relief installations commissioned for the building.
The curation mixes contemporary street photography, floral compositions, original exhibition posters and historical ephemera, pairing the tower's modern exterior with interiors meant to read as more layered and historical. NoMad describes the intent as a visual narrative built around Singapore's cultural tapestry.
NoMad Singapore is also commissioning artists with disabilities as part of the art programme, working with ART:DIS, a non-profit that campaigns for greater access to the arts for disabled artists. The partnership extends UOL's existing support for ART:DIS into the new hotel's commissioning budget.
Why Orchard Road and why now
NoMad has positioned the Singapore opening as a response to growing demand for elevated, experience-driven stays, rather than a straightforward expansion of room count. The brand frames the hotel as a way of extending its refined, eclectic style of luxury hospitality into a market it has not previously served.
Orchard Road gives the hotel immediate access to Singapore's established retail and lifestyle district, as well as the historic enclaves around it, while keeping the Central Business District a short distance away. We have found Orchard Road's neighbour hotels, including Pan Pacific Singapore, competing hardest on exactly that mix of shopping, heritage and business access.
Our own survey of the city's top properties, covering names across the Marina Bay and Orchard Road districts, has tended to reward hotels that pair strong design with a distinct sense of place rather than sheer scale. NoMad's Peranakan-inflected interiors and its WOHA facade put it squarely in that company.
No opening date more specific than late 2026 has been given for NoMad Hilton Singapore, and neither NoMad nor UOL Group has disclosed pricing for the rooms or suites. Those details, along with any further Asia Pacific sites for the brand, remain unannounced ahead of the hotel's debut.
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