Three years after establishing its Beijing office, the Rotterdam-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has announced the first project spearheaded entirely by this branch: Singapore Scotts Tower, a 36-story, 68-unit condominium tower for the Far East Organization, Singapore’s largest private development company.

Designed by partner Ole Scheeren and associate Eric Chang—both veterans of OMA’s Prada projects—the building is composed of four distinct towers, cantilevered at varying heights above a central core that is shaped like a plus sign. Scheeren says that this cantilevered design represents an attempt to bypass Singapore’s notoriously fickle housing market and zoning requirements. By eliminating most of the building’s lower floors, OMA created a residential tower where essentially only top floors exist.