Best Tall Building Finalist - ICON

8192019 Best Tall Building Finalist - ICON

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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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