Marina Bay Sands, Singapore New Icons

Reflection of the afternoon sun hit the building Marina Bay Sands, which is swathed in glass to make them look golden. 200-meter-tall building that has now become one of the icons of tourism complement the Marina Bay area, other than statues of lions in the daytime Marlion continue to spout water from its mouth.
Except for a planned activity that occurs within the Marina Bay Sands, in order ahead of the opening of the integrated resort-community activities around Marina Bay, Tuesday (22/06/2010), not much changed than usual. The area is located at the mouth of Singapore River kept bergeliat. The more the evening, conditions are more crowded by the people who come home from work, and deliberately choose to walk, people who just hang around until the people jogging and other exercise.
Physical building Marina Bay Sands Hotel consists of three towers, each having 55 floors height. Moshe Safdie is an architect from Boston, United States, who designed the unique buildings on the land urukan year results 1960-1980's it. From a distance, the physical form of buildings resembling the letter M. At the third summit arranged by the hotel tower on a building shaped like a ship which was then called Sand SkyPark, who concurrently serves as the crown of the building.
With an area of 12.4 thousand square meters, the pavilion Sand SkyPark accommodate, among others, 250 650 trees and other plants. In that place there are also along the 150-meter swimming pool that allows its users to feel as if swimming in space.
Still in the Skypark site, there are several restaurants, including 57 on the menu Sky fronted Singapore celebrated chef, Justin Quek. From this place also the visitors can enjoy views of the horizon of Singapore until the point of 360 degrees, ranging from the view-rise buildings up to the port of Singapore to become the busiest port in the world.
Marina Bay Sands will be thick art elements. Work of six international artists combined into one building with the work of Moshe Safdie. Artists, among others, Antony Gormley with the installation works "Drift", Chongbin Zheng with the work of "Rising Forest", and James Carpenter with his "Blue Reflection Passage Entry façade with Light."
In Drift, for example, Antony Gormley displays a matrix of three-dimensional polyhedral stainless stell 16 100 rods made of steel and steel more than 8320 nodes. Works that have a length of 40 meters, height of 23 meters, 15 meters wide, with 14.8 tons of weight was hung between 5th and 12th floor atrium of the hotel tower first.
Similarly with the Rising Forest, Chongbin Zheng made a ceramic sculpture made of 83 large pottery vessel. Each vessel has a weight of 1200 kilograms with a height of three meters. Each vessel is able to accommodate a tree that created a canopy in the interior and exterior areas of the hotel atrium.
The existence of the Marina Bay Sands is very strategic. Construction of hotels and resort facilities which cost 5.5 billion U.S. dollars was only separated from Bayfront Avenue Road. On one side there are roads that have a 2561 room hotel. While other facilities, such as the Expo hall, theater and casino, located on one side of the street. Both buildings woven by a number of corridors, whether it is located at an elevation well below the ground.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Las Vegas Sands Corp, Sheldon G Adelson told the press says, what is in the Marina Bay Sands is something new in the world of entertainment. They not only can stay at the hotel, but also shopping, enjoy a dish of food from renowned chefs, see the theater and museums, as well as body treatments.
One again, they could also seek his fortune in the casino. Bay Sands is a second casino in Singapore after the first casino in Sentosa Island which was inaugurated in February 2010.
According to Adelson, the presence of a casino at Marina Bay Sands is different from a casino in Las Vegas. There, people actually come with the purpose of gambling. While for Singapore, the casino is not the only ultimate goal. Those who come to the Marina Bay Sands could use another facility, not merely to a casino.
About the market and the Marina Bay Sands casino, Adelson said in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia has become the main market. Beyond that there are Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos. In the next section is Hong Kong, Australia, China, Japan, Korea, India and the Philippines.
However, for Singapore society itself should hold my breath for a moment to get into the casino. Rules in the "Lion Country" set out to pay 100 Singapore dollars for its citizens wishing to enter the casino.
Rules, according to Mohamed Yusoff Mahmood, freelance tour guide, intended to avoid the things that are not desired. Communities that do not have sufficient income so as not to get into gambling. Judi had a tremendous effect and the state did not want to endure poor because the people who will gamble.