The Marina Bay Sands ( 滨海湾金沙综合娱乐城) is Singapore's first casino, being developed by one of the world's biggest gambling companies, Las Vegas Sands, at Marina South in central Singapore. Completion of the Integrated Resort is expected for 2010. The casino and one of the hotel towers was expected to open in December 2009. However, on July 8, 2009, it was announced that the initial phase of the Marina Bay Sands will open early 2010.
Las Vegas Sands has committed to invest S$3.85 billion in the project, not including the fixed $1.2 billion cost of the 6,000,000 square feet (560,000 m2) site itself, which by most estimates will make it the most expensive casino in the world. The total cost of the development is placed at S$8.0 billion. In addition to the casino, other key components of the plan are three hotel towers with 2,600 rooms and suites, a 200,000-square-foot (19,000 m2) arts and sciences museum and a convention centre with 1,200,000 square feet (111,000 m2) of space, capable of accommodating over 52,000 people. The resort, inspired by card decks, was designed by Moshe Safdie. The company has promised to create 10,400 jobs for the project, 75 percent of them reserved for Singaporeans.
Marina Bay Sands will feature three 55 storey hotel towers which were topped out in July 2009. The three towers will be connected with a 1 hectare sky terrace on the roof.
In front of the three towers will be a Theatre Block, a Convention and Exhibition Facilities Block, as well as the Casino Block, which will have up to 1 000 gaming tables and 1 400 slot machines. The Art-Science Museum will be constructed next to the three blocks and will have the shape of a lotus. Its roof will be retractable, providing a waterfall through the roof of collected rainwater when closed in the day and treating audiences to laser shows when opened at night. The Art-Science Museum will be ready by early-2010.
The 55 storeys of the three towers have been topped out on 8 July 2009 with outfitting of rooms completed to the 15th to 16th floors (As of March 2009). Cladding of the lower floors have started as well while construction on the sky terrace is expected to commence by August 2009.
Site Plan 
Las Vegas Sands Founder,chairman and chief executive officer Sheldon Adelson, left, looks at a model of the planned Marina Bay Sands Casino resort during a ceremony to mark the beginning of the construction of the casino-integrated resort in Marina Bay, Singapore
Project Details:
Project Location SINGAPORE
Client Las Vegas Sands Corp.
Inception Date 2006-04-06
Completion Date 2009-01-01
Total Area 6 million square feet
Project Cost US $3.6 billion
Status Awarded 2006-5-26
Design Team
Moshe Safdie and Associates – Design Architects Aedas – Architect Peter Walker and Associates – Landscape Architect RG Vanderweil – Mechanical and Electrical Engineers Arup – Structural Engineers EC Harris – Quantity Surveyors
Brief
Marina Bay Sands is a new type of urban place that integrates the Waterfront Promenade with a grand, multi-leveled retail arcade combining civic space, shopping, indoor and outdoor spaces endowed with city skyline views, daylight and plant life, providing an abundance and variety of activities. It is a place that is vibrant and dynamic, a place that transforms from hour to hour, from day to night, and is evocative of the great urban places. It is here that the imaginings of a global city become a reality. Marina Bay Sands, to be open in 2009, will feature three 50-story hotel towers containing 1,000 rooms each, crowned by a two acre Sky Garden bridging across the towers, offering 360-degree views of the city and the sea, outdoor amenities for the hotel such as jogging paths, swimming pools, spas, and gardens; an iconic Arts and Sciences Museum on the promontory; one-million square feet of integrated waterside promenade and shopping arcade; a state-of-the art one-million square foot convention center; two 2,000-seat theaters; a casino; and a 4,000 car garage.
The beginning of the project..
The South-East Asian city-state of Singapore – an internationally renowned financial centre and, with its very busy port, one of the largest and most modern freight handling centres in the world – is now also striving to become a top tourist destination. With its ambitious Marina Bay Sands™ project, the U.S.-based Las Vegas Sands Corporation, is currently developing a gigantic complex complete with convention facilities, casino, theatres, museum and an impressive hotel complex. The three concave-shaped hotel towers dominate the city skyline and each has 55 floors that will be connected using a sky terrace on the roof at a height of nearly 200 metres. An international team of PERI specialists from Singapore and Germany created a comprehensive formwork and scaffolding solution for the Korean building company, SsangYong Engineering & Construction. In particular, the SKYTABLE large slab tables as well as PERI ACS self-climbing technology have optimised construction progress with reduced crane times.
In each case, two asymmetrically curved legs have been positioned against each other which grow together like bridge pylons to form units. Although the three hotel towers are still identical with regard to the height and number of floors, the forms of the respective building elements nevertheless have considerable differences in terms of the base width, curvature radius and lateral offset dimension. Furthermore, the individual floors are also offset from one another in a longitudinal direction.
From the broadest product range for system equipment available worldwide, PERI provides the optimal solution in each case for a wide spectrum of requirements. Here, the variable VARIO GT 24 girder wall formwork and the column formwork – which is based on the same components – form a proven and stable basis. In addition, versatile shoring with ST 100 stacking towers are quickly and easily installed using only a minimum of system parts. www.peri.de
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Marina Surrounding Amazing view:
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