So still on the topic of IR (Integrated Resort) from the last entry, the one in Marina Bay would look something like this:

It is designed by another internationally-renowned Israeli architect Moshe Safdie. Click on the image above to see the reasons why it won (which came as a surprise to many, myself included).

Besides the IR, another much-anticipated addition to the Marina Bay area would be the Marina Barrage (below). Technically we can't call the Singapore River a river anymore and that sucks (all the history and wildlife would be gone just like that).

And the London Eye copycat and almost-world's-largest-ferris-world-until-China-announced-her-plans-to-build-a-larger-one-just-a-few-days-later, Singapore Flyer.

And the new National Stadium would look something like this;

"With an estimated cost of $600 million, Singapore Gold’s horseshoe shaped National Stadium, designed by HOK Sport Architecture, will boast the world’s first waterfront stadium with a retractable roof. The horse shoe design provides a view of the Kallang Basin and the city, while allowing the natural breeze to cool the stadium."

Nice... Kinda makes you forget why you were so upset about them demolishing the old Kallang National stadium there for a minute.

And finally, good news to all OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) and Rem Koolhaas fans (the what and the who now?), they have finally decided to build something on our shores (despite having slammed Singapore earlier in the book S,M,L,XL; Singapore songlines - thirty years of tabula rasa ).

Now that's very sexy...

On a final note, to all my fellow architecture lovers, here's a cool website I find really awesome. Do check it out.

Labels: architecture, Strictly Architecture

So still on the topic of IR (Integrated Resort) from the last entry, the one in Marina Bay would look something like this:

It is designed by another internationally-renowned Israeli architect Moshe Safdie. Click on the image above to see the reasons why it won (which came as a surprise to many, myself included).

Besides the IR, another much-anticipated addition to the Marina Bay area would be the Marina Barrage (below). Technically we can't call the Singapore River a river anymore and that sucks (all the history and wildlife would be gone just like that).

And the London Eye copycat and almost-world's-largest-ferris-world-until-China-announced-her-plans-to-build-a-larger-one-just-a-few-days-later, Singapore Flyer.

And the new National Stadium would look something like this;

"With an estimated cost of $600 million, Singapore Gold’s horseshoe shaped National Stadium, designed by HOK Sport Architecture, will boast the world’s first waterfront stadium with a retractable roof. The horse shoe design provides a view of the Kallang Basin and the city, while allowing the natural breeze to cool the stadium."

Nice... Kinda makes you forget why you were so upset about them demolishing the old Kallang National stadium there for a minute.

And finally, good news to all OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) and Rem Koolhaas fans (the what and the who now?), they have finally decided to build something on our shores (despite having slammed Singapore earlier in the book S,M,L,XL; Singapore songlines - thirty years of tabula rasa ).

Now that's very sexy...

On a final note, to all my fellow architecture lovers, here's a cool website I find really awesome. Do check it out.

Labels: architecture, Strictly Architecture

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