Tema: Singapur: Marina Bay Sands, 194 m, 57 pl x3 (Moshe Safdie)

Marina Bay Sands

Altura: 194 metros
Nº de plantas: 57
Uso: mixto
Arquitecto: Moshe Safdie
Comienzo de obras: 2006
Año de finalización: 2010




Marina Bay Sands is a new type of urban place that integrates the Waterfront Promenade with a grand, multi-leveled retail arcade combining civic space, shopping, indoor and outdoor spaces endowed with city skyline views, daylight and plant life, providing an abundance and variety of activities. It is a place that is vibrant and dynamic, a place that transforms from hour to hour, from day to night, and is evocative of the great urban places. It is here that the imaginings of a global city become a reality. Marina Bay Sands, to be open in 2009, will feature three 50-story hotel towers containing 1,000 rooms each, crowned by a two acre Sky Garden bridging across the towers, offering 360-degree views of the city and the sea, outdoor amenities for the hotel such as jogging paths, swimming pools, spas, and gardens; an iconic Arts and Sciences Museum on the promontory; one-million square feet of integrated waterside promenade and shopping arcade; a state-of-the art one-million square foot convention center; two 2,000-seat theaters; a casino; and a 4,000 car garage.

:: Moshe Safdie and Associates :: MARINA BAY SANDS


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Serving the rich and famous at Marina Bay Sands
By Neo Chai Chin, TODAY | Posted: 18 November 2009 0732 hrs


SINGAPORE: A hotel guest once called Ms Christine Kaelbel-Sheares at 2am, wanting to throw a party with bar service and a deejay for 40 friends within half an hour.

Another guest and his wife wanted to rent Elvis and Marilyn Monroe costumes for Halloween at the eleventh hour, when rental shops in Las Vegas were already largely out of stock.

Requests like these were the norm for Ms Kaelbel-Sheares when she was director of butler services at Las Vegas Sands' The Venetian and The Palazzo resorts.

After a two-year stint there, she is now looking to serve the rich and famous with equal zest at Marina Bay Sands (MBS) as its director of Paiza and VIP (food and beverage). Paiza is MBS' club for premium players.

"It's very much the same thing I was doing in Las Vegas – providing the top level of service to a very exclusive clientele," said Ms Kaelbel-Sheares, the granddaughter of Singapore's second president, Dr Benjamin Sheares.

"Our guests often don't plan ahead; they want something immediately. So a certain level of anticipation is needed, as well as being very resourceful."

When the MBS opens next year, it will create a category of service industry roles catering to heads of state, royalty, high rollers and celebrities on an unprecedented scale. Hundreds of positions are available, including butlers and VIP services officers, said an MBS spokesperson.

Asked how the integrated resort would fill its ranks with suitable candidates – given the relative novelty of such roles here – the spokesperson said MBS would conduct extensive in-house training.

Ms Kaelbel-Sheares, who joined in June, also hopes to attract overseas Singaporeans with relevant food and beverage experience, like herself, to return.

The 30-something has been abroad for 16 years, including five years running a French restaurant in Ohio with her husband.

Her interest in hospitality stemmed from watching her parents host heads of state and visiting dignitaries as a child. Her parents told her it was a "tough career", but even after obtaining a degree in law and politics, Ms Kaelbel-Sheares was "adamant" about pursuing her passion.

She got a postgraduate diploma in hospitality administration in Switzerland and went on to work at various hotels and resorts in England and the United States.

On Thursday and Friday, Ms Kaelbel-Sheares and her fellow department heads will be at the MBS' Career Fair at Suntec Singapore's Hall 602 to recruit people for their teams.

About 3,000 vacancies across 82 job types including commis chefs, room attendants, security officers and lifeguards are on offer.

On the gaming side, although the "majority" of dealer and dealer inspector positions have been filled, interested candidates may still send their resumes to Marina Bay Sands, the spokesperson said.

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Arquitectura de libro Guinness

Por: Anatxu Zabalbeascoa

Con crisis o sin crisis, parece que los récords siguen motivando a mecenas arquitectónicos y promotores inmobiliarios. Hay negocio en el XXL. El último logro, la piscina descubierta más larga del mundo, bate tantas marcas que cuesta describir su arquitectura a partir de una sola. Se trata del nuevo icono de Singapur. El Marina Bay Sands es un hotel formado por tres torres de 55 pisos coronadas por la ya famosa piscina al aire libre (150 metros), más larga que la Torre Eiffel tumbada y ubicada a 200 metros del suelo, literalmente sobrevolando el aire de la ciudad.

Pero hay más récords. Más allá de conseguir que nadar se convierta en volar, las tres torres, unidas en la planta veintitrés, son el edificio que más rápidamente se ha levantado nunca en Singapur (a razón de una nueva planta cada cuatro días). Las 2.561 habitaciones comparten edificio con 300 tiendas de lujo y seis restaurantes. Entre éstos se encuentra el Santi, de Santi Santamaría, en la estela del que el cocinero de Sant Celoni inauguró en el hotel Atlantis de Dubai. Gastronomía, comercio y descanso conviven con piezas artísticas tan monumentales como la nube de Antony Gormley -suspendida en el atrio de la primera torre entre los pisos 5 y 12-, que pesa 14,8 toneladas. Así, el complejo hotelero es, de nuevo, otro récord, el edificio que mayor inversión ha hecho en obras de arte –asimiladas a la arquitectura, se entiende-. De hecho, además de centro comercial y hotel, el conjunto cuenta con un teatro (que acogerá musicales de Broadway), un auditorio y ¿lo adivinan? un museo de arte.

Con todo, permítanme dudar de que la mayor sorpresa sean los récords. Lo más sorprendente del conjunto es el nombre del arquitecto que lo firma. Un grande de la arquitectura mundial que levantó en Montreal las viviendas modulares y prefabricadas Habitat 67 para la exposición universal de dicha ciudad canadiense. Hoy Moshe Safdie sigue interesándose por los retos. Pero, tras levantar el Museo del Holocausto y el Mamilla Center en Jerusalén o el Aeropuerto de Tel Aviv, sus retos parecen haberse transformado. ¿O no? ¿Es un reto hoy responder a las demandas de la sociedad pudiente con centros comerciales que lo sean también culturales? ¿Es una pantomima mezclar ambas actividades? ¿No lo hacen ya casi todas las artes?

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