Is Scary Resort Architecture What Our World Needs Now?
Imagine taking a dip in this hotel pool. Not in the harbor. The pool is 55 stories up on the top of this precarious-looking connected rooftop of the $5.7 billion Marina Bay Sands Hotel mega-scale resort designed by Moshe Safdie, that just opened in Singapore. The buildings appear to totter slightly as if to suggest the carbon footprint is just almost too much to bear.
The planet does not need another gigantic wasteful resort for the rich. But here it is anyway, lording it over the harbor below, out of place, unstable, and frighteningly fragile.
What a terrifying experience to swim in this, so far removed from the ocean it is supposed to suggest below. We humans and our buildings are getting out of the scale of the planet.
This is the architecture of hubris.
“The three hotel towers are connected at the top (200 meters/656 feet) by a 9,941 square meter (107,000 square foot) park that brings together a public observatory, jogging paths, gardens, restaurants, lounges, and an infinity swimming pool”, says the press release.
“This 1.2 hectare (3 acre) tropical oasis is longer than the Eiffel Tower is tall and large enough to park four-and-a-half A380 jumbo jets.”
That’s an image that I’ll remember. Half the last jumbo jet dangling off the edge.
Source: Homedesigning
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July 23rd, 2010 at 5:42 pm
This post really is a shrill and meaningless outburst. I can't imagine anyone actually comes here to be lectured in such a way. People get to build large wasteful buildings regardless of what you say, thankfully.
January 21st, 2011 at 3:42 am
"We humans and our buildings are getting out of the scale of the planet." Really? If you dropped that building in the Marianas Trench, even if landed intact and upright you'd have trouble reaching the roof, which would still be miles under water. Even the opposite side of the bay is far enough away to fade into the distance in one of the images, and that's a tiny fraction of just one ocean. I can understand thinking that devoting a large expenditure of resources to building a casino is wasteful, and even agree with that line of thinking. But suggesting that its size is such as to rival even the smallest features of our planet is to cross the line between hyperbole and idiocy.
April 26th, 2012 at 5:50 am
The planet does not need another gigantic wasteful resort for the rich. But here it is anyway, lording it over the harbor below, out of place, unstable, and frighteningly fragile.
Well said. It's hideous.