Marina Bay Sands
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Hotel resort built on reclaimed land in Singapore Bay
The hotel is contained within three 55-storey blocks, joined at the top by a 1 ha publicly accessible skypark, complete with a 150m-long swimming pool.
The 2,560 rooms are divided across the towers with deluxe rooms (the most basic available|) in Tower 3, while suites in Tower 1 and Tower 2 contain club class rooms plus a spa and gym.
Along with the hotel the resort includes a casino, conference centre, retail centre of more than 74,000m² called the Shoppes, two theatres, a museum of art and science shaped like a giant hand and, an event plaza with room for 10,000 people. There are also two ‘crystal pavilions’ in the dock to the rear of the scheme, one containing a Louis Vuitton store and the other a nightclub.
Data
- Begun: 2007
- Completed: 2011
- Floor area: 78,500m2
- Sector: Hotel
- Total cost: £2,147.5M
- Procurement: Prescriptive Design and Design-Bid-Build
- Address: Marina Bay Sands, 10 Bayfront Avenue, Singapore, 018956, Singapore
Professional Team 
- Architect: Safdie Architects
- Client: Las Vegas Sands Corporation
- Structural engineer: Arup
- M&E consultant: RG Vanderweil
- M&E consultant: Parsons Brinckerhoff
- Quantity surveyor: Rider Levett Bucknall
- Quantity surveyor: EC Harris
- Executive architect: Aedas
- Civil engineer: Arup
- Geotechnical engineer: Arup
- Facade engineer: Arup
- Acoustic engineer: Arup
- Landscape architect: Peter Walker & Partners
- Landscape architect: Peridian Asia
- Lighting consultant: Project Lighting Design
- Casino design: The Rockwell Group
- Interior design: CL3 Architects
- Theatre consultant: Fisher Dachs Associates
- Water features : Howard Fields & Associates International
- Construction manager: Ssangyong
- Main contractor: Ssangyong
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