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Best Tall Building Asia amp Australasia
Finalist
Completion Date June 2010Height to Architectural Top1 207m (679ft)
Stories1 57Area 249843 sq m (2689288 sq ft)
Primary Use1 HotelOwnerDeveloper Marina Bay Sands Pte Ltd (a subsidiary of
the Las Vegas Sands Corporation)
Design Architect Safdie ArchitectsAssociate Architect Aedas Ltd
Structural Engineer ArupMEP Engineer RG Vanderweil LLP
Main Contractor Ssangyong
Other Consultants Parsons Brinckerhoff Pte Ltd Peter Walker amp
Partners Landscape Architects Hirsch Bender Associates CL3
Marina Bay Sands is a high-density mixed-
use integrated resort that brings together
a 2560-room hotel a SkyPark convention
center shopping and dining theaters museum and
a casino across the water rom Singaporersquos central
business district Te 929000 sq m (10000000 sq f)
urban district anchors the Singapore waterront and
creates a gateway to Singapore Te design approach
or the complex was not as a building project but as
a microcosm o a citymdashrooted in Singaporersquos culture
climate and contemporary lie Te aim was to createan urban landscape capable o addressing the issue o
megascale
Te project is designed as an urban structure that
weaves together the components o a complex
program into a dynamic urban crossroads and public
meeting place Inspired by great ancient cities that
were ordered around a vital public thoroughare
Marina Bay Sands is organized around two principal
axes that traverse the district and give it a senseo orientation placing emphasis on the pedestrian
street as the ocus o civic lie Combining indoor
and outdoor spaces and providing a platorm or a
Marina Bay Sands Integrated ResortSingapore
Opposite Overall view of the hoteltowers and high level SkyPark
wide array o activities this vibrant 21st-century
cardo maximus or grand arcade also connects to the
subway and other transportation A series o layered
gardens provide ample green space throughout the
site extending the tropical garden landscape rom
Marina City Park towards the Bayront Te landscape
network reinorces urban connections with the resortrsquos
surroundings and every level o the district has green
space that is accessible to the public
Te most innovative aspect o Marina Bay Sands bothconceptually and technically is the 1 hectare (25 acre)
SkyPark atop the hotel towers Locating the park and
hotel amenities at 200m (656f) above the sea afforded
the architect the ability to keep the majority o the
project relatively low in height Te three 55-story
hotel towers anchor the district and are connected at
the top by the SkyParkmdashan engineering marvel that
at 340m (1115f) is longer than the Eiffel ower is tall
and large enough to park our-and-a-hal A380 jumbo
jets Te 65m (213f) cantilever o the SkyPark pastthe third hotel tower orms one o the worldrsquos largest
public cantilevers
Te SkyPark accommodates a public observatory
gardens a 151 meter-long (495 oot-long) swimming
pool restaurants and jogging paths and offers sweep-
ing panoramic views a ormidable resource in a dense
city like Singapore Shielded rom the winds and
lavishly planted with hundreds o trees the SkyPark
celebrates the notion o the Garden City that has been
the underpinning o Singaporersquos urban design strategy
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ldquoThe unique SkyPark is an instant
icon for the city and has the
potential to do for Singapore what
the Sydney Opera House did for
SydneyrdquoMun Summ Wong Juror WOHA Architects
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Left View from Marina BayOpposite Top Left Interior lobby viewOpposite Top Right Interior atriumviewOpposite Bottom Typical floor plansand SkyPark plan
the construction methods in order to acilitate one o
the highest strand jacking operations ever undertaken
Te hotel towers on which the SkyPark sits has an
unusual and spectacular orm that creates its distinct
silhouette Each tower is ormed by two curved and
splayed legs that lean into one another as they rise
ultimately becoming one at the upper levels At the
ground level the space between each tower is enclosed
to create a hotel lobby and atrium at the upper levels
the space is conceived as an ldquourban windowrdquo thatallows or views through the project Major steel
trusses orm a connection between the separate
segments o the buildingrsquos legs to provide a rame to
transer sheer between the towers and tie the buildings
together to resist lateral orces
Jury Statement
The curved and sweeping legs of the three hotel towers
that rise up to culminate in a continuous bridging SkyParkanchor its site at the gateway to Singaporersquos harbor with
a strong and highly iconic structure The engineering and
planning that went into the SkyParkrsquos construction and
incredible cantilever are commendable as is the bringing
of amenity and green spaces to the top of the towers
allowing further open space at grade
A post-tensioned box girder was designed to achieve
this incredible cantilever Te maximum depth o the
box girder is 10m (33f) at the end support rom the
hotel tower and generally 35m (11f) deep Te lifing
o the SkyPark was one o the many challenges that the
project aced that required an innovative approach to
ldquoBringing the SkyPark into the skymdasha 1047298oating
ship-like structure that overlooks the seasmdashis a
remarkable feat of engineeringrdquo Ahmad Abdelrazaq Juror Samsung Corporation
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ldquoThe unique SkyPark is an instant
icon for the city and has the
potential to do for Singapore what
the Sydney Opera House did for
SydneyrdquoMun Summ Wong Juror WOHA Architects
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90
Left View from Marina BayOpposite Top Left Interior lobby viewOpposite Top Right Interior atriumviewOpposite Bottom Typical floor plansand SkyPark plan
the construction methods in order to acilitate one o
the highest strand jacking operations ever undertaken
Te hotel towers on which the SkyPark sits has an
unusual and spectacular orm that creates its distinct
silhouette Each tower is ormed by two curved and
splayed legs that lean into one another as they rise
ultimately becoming one at the upper levels At the
ground level the space between each tower is enclosed
to create a hotel lobby and atrium at the upper levels
the space is conceived as an ldquourban windowrdquo thatallows or views through the project Major steel
trusses orm a connection between the separate
segments o the buildingrsquos legs to provide a rame to
transer sheer between the towers and tie the buildings
together to resist lateral orces
Jury Statement
The curved and sweeping legs of the three hotel towers
that rise up to culminate in a continuous bridging SkyParkanchor its site at the gateway to Singaporersquos harbor with
a strong and highly iconic structure The engineering and
planning that went into the SkyParkrsquos construction and
incredible cantilever are commendable as is the bringing
of amenity and green spaces to the top of the towers
allowing further open space at grade
A post-tensioned box girder was designed to achieve
this incredible cantilever Te maximum depth o the
box girder is 10m (33f) at the end support rom the
hotel tower and generally 35m (11f) deep Te lifing
o the SkyPark was one o the many challenges that the
project aced that required an innovative approach to
ldquoBringing the SkyPark into the skymdasha 1047298oating
ship-like structure that overlooks the seasmdashis a
remarkable feat of engineeringrdquo Ahmad Abdelrazaq Juror Samsung Corporation
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8192019 Best Tall Building Finalist - ICON
httpslidepdfcomreaderfullbest-tall-building-finalist-icon 34
90
Left View from Marina BayOpposite Top Left Interior lobby viewOpposite Top Right Interior atriumviewOpposite Bottom Typical floor plansand SkyPark plan
the construction methods in order to acilitate one o
the highest strand jacking operations ever undertaken
Te hotel towers on which the SkyPark sits has an
unusual and spectacular orm that creates its distinct
silhouette Each tower is ormed by two curved and
splayed legs that lean into one another as they rise
ultimately becoming one at the upper levels At the
ground level the space between each tower is enclosed
to create a hotel lobby and atrium at the upper levels
the space is conceived as an ldquourban windowrdquo thatallows or views through the project Major steel
trusses orm a connection between the separate
segments o the buildingrsquos legs to provide a rame to
transer sheer between the towers and tie the buildings
together to resist lateral orces
Jury Statement
The curved and sweeping legs of the three hotel towers
that rise up to culminate in a continuous bridging SkyParkanchor its site at the gateway to Singaporersquos harbor with
a strong and highly iconic structure The engineering and
planning that went into the SkyParkrsquos construction and
incredible cantilever are commendable as is the bringing
of amenity and green spaces to the top of the towers
allowing further open space at grade
A post-tensioned box girder was designed to achieve
this incredible cantilever Te maximum depth o the
box girder is 10m (33f) at the end support rom the
hotel tower and generally 35m (11f) deep Te lifing
o the SkyPark was one o the many challenges that the
project aced that required an innovative approach to
ldquoBringing the SkyPark into the skymdasha 1047298oating
ship-like structure that overlooks the seasmdashis a
remarkable feat of engineeringrdquo Ahmad Abdelrazaq Juror Samsung Corporation
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