OUB Centre, Singapore

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OUB Centre is one of the three tallest skyscrapers in Singapore. It was the first of the three skyscrapers to reach the height of 280 meters (919 feet), and was the tallest building in the world outside North America when it was completed in 1986, surpassing South Korea's 63 Building completed a year earlier. It was eventually surpassed by the Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong. The architect was Kenzo Tange.

OUB Centre is located at Raffles Place, within a stone's throw from UOB Plaza and Republic Plaza, the other two skyscrapers of the same height. It has 63 storeys above ground and four basement levels.

OUB Centre sits on a podium known as OUB Centre Mall, which is next to the Raffles Place MRT Station. Presently another new tower is under construction here, to be completed in 2011. The OUB Centre Mall has to be renovated to make way for it. The new tower, designed by Kenzo Tange's son Paul, will be called One Raffles Place. It will have 38 storeys and will stand at a height of 205 meters. The tower will add some 350,000 square feet of office space to the Central Business District.