Stretching longer than the Eiffel tower laid down or four and a half A380 jumbo jets, with an impressive 12,400 square metres of space, the Sands SkyPark can host up to 3,900 people. At 57-stories high, the gravity-defying cantilever is one of the largest of its kind in the world. From this privileged observation deck, hundreds of visitors at a time can feast their eyes on the unforgettable panorama view of Singapore or play in a casino, bars, restaurants, the largest outdoor swimming pool at that height-an infinity pool 150 metres long, and a Museum of Modern Art.
Swimming to the edge won't be quite as risky as it looks. While the water in the infinity pool seems to end in a sheer drop, it actually spills into a catchment area where it is pumped back into the main pool. At three times the length of an Olympic pool and 650 feet up, it is the largest outdoor pool in the world at that height.
It features in the impressive, boat-shaped "SkyPark" perched atop the three towers that make up the world's most expensive hotel, the £4 billion Marina Bay Sands development in Singapore.
Las Vegas Sands developed this amazing structure. Marina Bay Sands is the world's most expensive casino.
The total area of the resort is 20 hectare. The resort consists of casino, a hotel with 2,561 rooms, convention and exhibition centre which is spread over 120,000 square metre area, shopping malls, a unique art and science museum, two sand theatres, seven celebrity chef restaurants, two floating pavilions. The casino is so big that there are 500 tables arranged and 1,600 slot machines are operating.
At the top of the complex, there is the most amazing feature of the resort, a park which is named Sky Park. This park has the capacity of 3,900 people. The hotel, which has 2,560 rooms costing from £350 a night, was officially opened with a concert by Diana Ross. The Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi, estimated to have cost £2 billion when it opened in 2004, was previously the world's most expensive hotel. With its indoor canal, opulent art, casino, outdoor plaza, convention centre, theatre, crystal pavilion and museum shaped like a lotus flower, the Marina Bay Sands has taken its crown. The designer or architect of the project is Moshe Safdie architects. The three towers were based on a deck of cards, according to designer Moshe Safdie.
The engineers were from Arup and Parsons Brinkerhoff. The main contractor of this most amazing project was Ssang Yong Engineering and Construction. Inside shoppers can ride along an indoor canal in Sampan boats styled on traditional Chinese vessels from the 17th century. The owners have also commissioned five well-known artists to create works of art to integrate with the buildings. Among these is a 40-metre-long Antony Gormley sculpture made from 16,100 steel rods. The whole thing weighs 14.8 tonnes and it took 60 people to assemble it in the hotel. Artist Chongbin Zheng created Rising Forest, which is 83 three metre high pots with trees in them. The pots were so big, the artist had to build a customised kiln the size of a small building to make them in.
The resort will employ 10,000 people directly and generate up to £48 million each year. Entrance to the casino alone is nearly £50 a day-but an average of 25,000 people have visited the casino daily since its initial phased opening a year ago. Thomas Arasi, president and chief executive officer of the resort, said he expects to attract an astonishing 70,000 visitors a day once it is fully open. Some difficulties like labour shortage, global financial crisis and cost of material delayed the opening of the resort which was planned in 2009.