1/6 · Exterior · Marina Bay Sands Hotel 3Photo: Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK · CC BY 2.0 · source2/6 · Exterior · Marina Bay Sands and ArtScience Museum Photo: Marcin Konsek · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source3/6 · Exterior · Singapore: ArtScience Museum and Marina Bay SandsPhoto: CEphoto, Uwe Aranas · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source4/6 · InteriorPhoto: SolaroLP23 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source5/6 · Interior · A foreigner admiring the view of Marine Bay Sands behind herPhoto: Nil not found · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source6/6 · Detail · Hehe and Xiexie sculpturesPhoto: Marcin Konsek · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Hospitality · Contemporary
Marina Bay Sands
Moshe Safdie · Singapore, SG · 2010
Key featuresThree hotel towers carry a 340 m sky park that cantilevers far beyond the north tower.
Marina Bay Sands (often colloquially shortened to 'MBS') is an integrated resort fronting Marina Bay in Singapore and a landmark of the city. At its opening in 2010, it was deemed the world's most expensive standalone casino property at S$8 billion (US$6.88 billion). The resort includes a 1,850-room hotel, a 120,000-square-metre (1,300,000 sq ft) meetings and conventions facility at Sands Expo & Convention Centre, a 74,000-square-metre (800,000 sq ft) luxury shopping mall, The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands, an ArtScience museum, a 2,183-capacity theatre, the world's first floating Apple store, the world's first Louis Vuitton Island Maison, celebrity chef and signature restaurants, and a casino with 500 tables and 3,000 electronic gaming machines. The complex includes three towers topped by the Sands Skypark, a 340-metre-long (1,120 ft) skyway connecting the towers with a capacity of 3,902 people and a 150 m (490 ft) infinity swimming pool, set on top of the world's largest public cantilevered platform, which overhangs the north tower by 66.5 m (218 ft). The 20-hectare resort was designed by Moshe Safdie. The main contractor was Ssangyong Engineering and Construction.