Things to do at this refreshed lifestyle hub
Need a new place to host, dine, chill or bring the family? The newly revamped Nanyang Executive Centre should be on your radar
by Kwok Pei Fang / Photos by Nanyang Executive Centre and Kwok Pei Fang
What the revamped Nanyang Executive Centre will look like when it fully opens in the third quarter of this year.
Tucked away near the campus sports and recreation centre, the rejuvenated Nanyang Executive Centre is the latest destination for formal meetings and casual gatherings. Almost fully reopened, it will boast modern facilities for work and relaxation, including a co-working space, café, gym and rooftop garden, before the end of the year.
1. Host your next club or hall event there
now book the centre’s facilities, which include a 210-seat auditorium, a function hall, lecture rooms, breakout spaces, a forum space and an education atrium, for a fee.
2. Hang out by the new pool
Slip away to NTU’s upgraded swimming complex next door for a calm, resort-like escape. There’s an Olympic-sized main pool, a two-lane lap pool for fitness swimmers, and a leisure pool for easy dips. Clock your laps, or just lounge poolside with your mates or a good book.
3. Catch up over a hearty meal with friends
New dining spots are popping up in the vicinity, like Chinese restaurant Man Le at the Campus Clubhouse across the street. Opening later this year is a café at the Nanyang Executive Centre as well as Paolo Sports Bar at the Clubhouse. Getting there is easy – just hop on the lunch express, which runs from various pick-up points across campus between 11.30am and 2.30pm on weekdays (excluding public holidays). The shuttle is on trial until end-September.
4. Have a staycay with the fam and explore our nature-filled campus
Hosting family or friends from overseas? Put them up right on campus. The centre’s 150 guest rooms range from cosy options for two to three guests to the spacious Panorama Suite, designed for families. Show your loved ones around the lush campus, and top off the tour with a stroll through Yunnan Garden, where you might chance upon cute otters or migratory birds like the brown-streaked flycatcher or the Asian openbill stork.
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Click or tap on the visual below to cross paths with campus otters
5. Enjoy photos and art by the NTU community
Be inspired by the creativity of NTU’s students, staff and faculty. Winning entries from nearly 240 submissions to the NTU Photography & Art Competition 2025 will brighten the centre’s guest rooms and common areas.
Our campus in art
Some winning works from the contest
“Sunset Above the Canopy”
PHOTOGRAPHY
“I took this photo during an evening break. It’s now my laptop wallpaper. Surprisingly, most people don’t realise it’s the bubble canopy at the North Spine.” – Wendy Ong, Deputy Director at NTU Library
“Annular Solar Eclipse @ NTU”
DIGITALISED ART
“This composite image captures the rare annular solar eclipse over NTU’s Electrical & Electronic Engineering (EEE) block in 2019. The next one visible in Singapore won’t happen until 2063. I hope viewers will feel a sense of wonder while reflecting on how far we’ve come in our understanding of the universe.” – Assoc Prof Ng Beng Koon, EEE professor who teaches an astronomy course in the NTU-University Scholars Programme
“In Community We Thrive”
DIGITALISED ART
“I created this from my hospital bed while battling chemotherapy-induced nausea. The spirals in the artwork are inspired by the running track at NTU’s Sports & Recreation Centre, where I spent many mornings. At the centre of this piece lies the essence of NTU, expressed through its iconic buildings, the future Jurong Region Line, the halls, our people and the footprints we leave behind. A few days after submitting my entry, my condition worsened and I fell into a 32-hour coma. I wasn’t able to fully realise my original vision, but that incompleteness reflects the reality of balancing studies, illness and life.” – Materials engineering student Wong Ze Rong
This story was published in the Mar-Apr 2026 issue of HEY!. To read it and other stories from this issue in print, click here.
