The massive, eye-stunning Marina
Bay Sands Hotel and Sands SkyPark is more than 9 million square feet and cost $5.7 billion to develop.
Photo courtesy of Marina Bay Sands
SKY HIGH
The Marina Bay Sands Hotel and Sands SkyPark turned out to be even better than anyone could have imagined it would be.
Well, okay, maybe except for Sheldon Adelson and Safdie Architects, who worked on the project. One look at the architecture of the building and it is clear to see that this was a task of monumental proportion! It is one that took a massive amount of resources,
ingenuity, and teamwork. Together they pulled it off and gave the rest of the world something to talk about for years to come!
AMBITIONS
Sheldon Adelson, billionaire businessman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp., had a dream, and it went well beyond the Las Vegas Sands. His dream took him out of the Nevada desert and into the bustling city of Singapore, halfway around the world. He wanted to build not only the largest casino in the world, but one whose architecture would stop people in their tracks. And that’s exactly what he did, because what was built was a masterpiece that includes one of the largest cantilevers in the world!
THE PARK IN THE SKY Without a doubt, the most incredible feat of the Marina Bay Sands Hotel is the Sands SkyPark, which is literally a massive park at the height of 200 meters, on top of three hotel towers covering 12,400 meters with a maximum width of 40 meters. According to Moshe Safdie of Safdie Architects, the concept for the SkyPark came about through a space issue and consequential solution. Once the footprint of the building was laid out on site, the com- plex still lacked the space required for recreational facilities like swimming pools, gardens and jogging paths. Hence Safdie’s the idea of lifting up the entire recreation zone by creating a three-acre SkyPark. While initially the Skypark was planned to be limited to the footprint offered by the three towers
put together, after consultations with a feng shui expert, the design team decided to cantilever 66.5 metres of the park off the north tower of the casino-resort complex. To put the SkyPark in perspective, the gigantic deck could house three football fields. With an over- all length of 340 meters, you could park 4 ½ A380 Jet Airplanes end to end atop the garden structure. Te SkyPark took an enormous amount of skill to build and makes the hotel not only look unique, but provides a magnificent space that only a superbly skilled architect and construction crew could pull off. Te SkyPark masterpiece is decked out with lush landscaping that includes gardens, 250 trees, and
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BY J. BODNAR
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