Marina Bay Sands Unique Design an Engineering Marvel
Roopinder Tara posted on October 25, 2017 | 65 views
The Marina Bay Sands in Singapore is host to Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure 2017. Its towering hotel stands out even against the “hey, look at me” architecture that has come to dominate skylines in many of Asia’s big cities. There’s nothing like it in the world, whatever it is subject to interpretation. Is it a ship stranded among towers? But the ship curves, so more like a giant silvery eel as seen from the ground. Architect Moshe Safdie was inspired by a deck of cards, which explains some of the curves in the towers and fits with owner Sands, which exists mostly to make and run casinos. Either way, it shouldn’t have palm trees 200 meters above the ground, but it does.
This most unlikely hotel, completed in 2010, has more than 2,500 rooms. But it’s not the size, or the distinctive shape of the three towers, or even the 2.5-acre park perched on top of them. What everyone can’t wait to get into–and be photographed in–are the pools. The hotel has three infinity pools on the 57th story.
Close to the edge. The infinity pool at the 57th floor of the MBS in Singapore. (Image courtesy of Natare Corp.)
Hotels in hot destinations know multiple pools are excellent draws, often with swim-up bars, but the pools in the MBS are in the sky. Infinity pools are the height of pool fashion, appearing in the millions of photos shot there, as if…