Thursday, 29 September 2011

WHERE I WANT TO GO ...

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/68Uqje/www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/14514/marina-bay-sands-hotel-singapore.html


marina bay sands complex consists of three hotel towers connected by the magnificent sands skypark.
designboom's editors had the great opportunity to stay and test out the newly opened hotel.
with over 2,500 rooms and suites, it is the biggest hotel in singapore.
the sands skypark with pool is built at the height of 200 meters.
its lush, landscaped gardens are home to 250 trees and 650 plants and offer a total of 12,400 square meters of space -
big enough to fit three football fields. hotel guests have the exclusive use of a 150-meter infinity swimming pool,
the world’s largest outdoor pool at that height



'rising forest' by shanghai artist chongbin zheng is a ceramic sculpture composed of 83 massive glazed stone-ware ceramic vessels
occupying approximately 4,000 square meters in the hotel atrium. each vessel weighs in at 1,200 kilogram and measures 3 meters tall.
the vessels were so large that the artist had to build a customized kiln the size of a small building. ceramics of this size are rarely
made and fired in one piece.
in the atrium there are several dining bars. 'rise' which is an all-day restaurant featuring world cuisine, emphasizes south east asian
specialties. rise offers buffet and a-la-carte breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper


the 'drift' sculpture by artist UK antony gormley is a massive three dimensional stainless steel polyhedral matrix of over 16,100
steel rods and more than 8,320 steel nodes. measuring approximately 40 meters long, 23 meters high and 15 meters wide.
the structure weighs 14.8 tons. drift is suspended cloud-like in the air between levels 5 and 12 of the atrium of hotel tower 1.

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