Marina Bay Sands Hotel

....A rocket-ship counting down on the launchpad... All systems go...

The turnover in the hotel industry in SG is likely a closely guarded state secret; the number of hotels perhaps unknown even to the state. Among them all the MBS is the crowning glory, an architectural icon amidst a cluster of icons on the artificially constructed bay. Fantasies a daily reality for the patrons swimming in the Skypool that has been plonked on top, 200 metres off the ground and spanning the three towers. (An intriguing story. A rush was on for the construction. At some point the planners, Chinese naturally, realised, Oh gee! Hang on a cotton-picking minute. We can't have this.... From distance look Joss-stick (funerary incense)! What about something on top... Perhaps malicious gossip. Someone said it was in the newspapers.) Impossible that a photograph can do the MBS justice given all the angles and the sinuous form. Stephen Black the photographer has done his darndest.

Two other blogs posted on the MBS:
150 / 200 MBS - Sept 2011 and MBS Mark II (Moshie Safdie) Jan 2012