Marina Bay Sands

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Construction area taken from the The Float at Marina Bay on April 18, 2009.
The parcel of land for the new Marina Bay Sands. The area in the background is Singapore's financial district.
Scale model of the development (together with the Singapore skyline) on display in the URA Gallery.
A larger scale model, also at the Singapore gallery, showing much of the planned waterfront promenade.
Construction area taken from the The Float at Marina Bay on August 18, 2007.

The Marina Bay Sands (Chinese: 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.[1]

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. [1] The total cost of the development is placed at S$8.0 billion.[2] In addition to the casino, other key components of the plan are three hotel towers with 2,500 rooms, 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 are expected to be completed by 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 openable and closable, 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.

As of June 2009, 50 storeys of the three towers have been constructed 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 or September, 2009.

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[edit] Hotel

The 5-star 2,600 room Marina Bay Sands hotel will feature greenery, sculptured gardens, restaurants and a swimming pool.

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[edit] Gallery

Picture of the work site taken from the East Coast Parkway on July 12, 2007.

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  1. ^ Marina Bay Sands opening delayed to early next year
  2. ^ Marina Bay Sands opening delayed to early next year

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