one-north and Mediapolis around Bloomsbury Residences

Bloomsbury Residences is the first private residential development to break ground in Mediapolis, the media quarter of one-north. This guide looks at the district, the employers within walking and cycling distance and the housing planned around it.

one-north and Bloomsbury Residences

one-north is the business district of about 200 hectares master-planned, according to the developer’s brochure, by Zaha Hadid Architects, and run by JTC as a cluster for research and development in biomedicine, the physical sciences, engineering and infocomm media. The brochure, quoting JTC’s guide, counts more than 500 multinational companies, 800 start-ups and 50,000 knowledge workers in the district, with investment of more than seven billion dollars.

Mediapolis, where the development stands, is the precinct for media and infocomm. Mediacorp Campus is about 350 metres from the site in a straight line on OneMap, Infinite Studios about 220 metres and Alice@Mediapolis about 230 metres; Fusionopolis and Biopolis are each about a kilometre away.

one-north district

About 200 hectares.

Media, research and technology clusters around the development, with more than 50,000 knowledge workers by JTC’s count.

Employers within Reach of Bloomsbury Residences

The brochure lists the walking, cycling and driving times to the district’s best-known names: Infinite Studios two minutes’ walk, Mediacorp Campus three, Alice@Mediapolis four and Grab’s headquarters five; Razer’s regional headquarters three minutes by bicycle, the P&G Innovation Centre four and A*STAR five; and Apple, Shopee and the National University Hospital five to six minutes by car.

Measured on OneMap (SLA) from the site; walking routes are longer.

Housing Planned around Bloomsbury Residences

In May 2024, the Urban Redevelopment Authority proposed amendments to its master plan for Media Circle and Portsdown Road, preparing several parcels there for homes with retail at ground level; the developer’s brochure, citing URA, estimates more than 2,000 planned residential units in the area. Once marked only for commercial use, the estate is becoming a residential community, and the brochure describes Bloomsbury Residences as the first luxury home in it.

Daily Life in one-north for Bloomsbury Residences Residents

Galaxis, above one-north station, has a food and retail podium, and Fusionopolis a Cold Storage supermarket; The Star Vista and Rochester Mall at Buona Vista add more restaurants and shops. The shopping and dining guide covers them, and the location page gives every distance from Bloomsbury Residences.