Marina Bay Sands Research Articles

A Study on Expression of Taoism Water Thoughts in Installation Art

Water, the origin of life, is one of the five elements that Chinese ancient philosophers applied to clarify the formation and correlations of all things in the world. Taoism attaches great importance to life and wellness, thus, as a symbol of life, "water" has always been respected in Taoism. The founder of Taoism, Lao Tsu, claimed that the most sublime deeds are just like what water does. Therefore, water resembles the spirit of Taoism. According to this, this article chooses water as the way the author viewing the world. For human civilization, water is closely related to life. From one perspective, the reliance and worship of water could be observed from the rituals of praying and offering sacrifices to Gods or ancestors. From another perspective, Taoism uses water to purify body and mind, release souls from purgatory and symbolize holy space and time. Furthermore, the concept of "harmony between man and nature" in Tao Te Ching (《道德經》), written by Lao Tsu, focuses on the protection and utilization of water resources. This concept has become the inspiration of many artists in recent years and an issue that we cannot avoid in environmental protection, The diverse functions fully demonstrate the characteristics of Taoism. This paper reveals the unique valve of "water" in Taoism from the life meaning, the representation of time and space, the regenerative capacity, the nature of circulation, and the awareness of ecological protection of water resources. This paper further analyzes the artistic and social value of "water" in Taoism. At the same time, the author hopes to arouse people"s awareness of water resources" protection.
 This article attempts to analyze the artistic and social expression of Taoist "water" in western installation arts. Water has long been worshiped and esteemed in Taoism, the aboriginal ancient Chinese religion and belief system, which advocates a harmonious mind and balanced life. Central to the Taoist philosophy are concept of Tao, Wuwei, Ziran and Yin and Yang. Taoist water has diverse symbolic and practical functions: it is vital to life and wellness, as it can treat illness, be applied to rituals, and believed to lead to eternal life. Water is also an element of purification of both body and mind. Also, it represent time and space in a unique way. Water is a metaphor for the coexistence between man and nature. We choose 5 representative works, i.e. Random International's Rain Room, Leandro Erlich's Swimming Pool, Jason deCaires Taylor's The Silent Evolution, Marina Bay Sands'Rain Oculus, LA & FreelandBuck's Rain Oculus, to interpret how one or more above functions are demonstrated in them. We can see that Taoist water thoughts are still vigorous and inspiring in today's artistic and social issues, with its rich life connotations, the representation of time and space, the regenerative capacity, the nature of circulation, and the awareness of ecological protection of water resources.

Singapore’s Integrated Resorts: An After-Pandemic Marketing Strategy Attractiveness and Innovations to Attract More Indonesian Visitors

Integrated Resorts in Singapore is one of the most popular and iconic destinations for Indonesia travellers and also takes a role as one of the key contributors to the tourism economy. But looking at the current financial report, both Marina Bay Sands and Resorts World Sentosa have not gained a significant growth in their revenue yet where now it worsened by the pandemic situation. This paper is the first academic research of its kind based on the approach of in-depth interview with Indonesia high income travellers for providing the shifting approach to apply the Business of Integrated Experiences. There will be three innovation areas to focus on: Things to Maintain, Things to Leverage, and Things to Develop. The Business of Integrated Experiences approach is an innovative approach that focuses on creating a holistic experience for customers by integrating various elements of the resort. This approach aims to provide customers with a unique and memorable experience that will encourage them to return and recommend the resort to others. The research aims to explore how integrated resorts can apply this approach to enhance their offerings and attract more customers in a post-pandemic world.

Transformed landscapes, tourist sentiments: the place making narrative of a luxury heritage hotel in Singapore

ABSTRACT The position of heritage hotels in place making narratives is not secure, given the challenges of new local developments and larger international forces. This research examines Singapore’s iconic luxury heritage hotel, Raffles Singapore, against the relatively new hotels, The Fullerton Hotel Singapore and Marina Bay Sands, to identify the nexus between the island city-state’s historical and contemporary position in the changing hospitality landscape, specifically addressing the concept of place making as a dynamic narrative. Applying sentiment analysis, 454 hotel guest reviews on internationally recognized travel websites were examined. The findings suggest that the dominance of a luxury heritage hotel in the narratives of place making can shift over time, subject to postmodern architectural developments in the hotel landscape and competition from other luxury heritage hotels with iconic and location histories. A key contribution to the hospitality discipline is the measurement of a luxury heritage hotel’s staying power through continuous place making amid glocal challenges. The significance of the findings should alert hospitality practitioners specializing in marketing to potential shifts arising from continuing new competitive narratives in place making.

Las Vegas in Singapore: Violence, Progress, and the Crisis of Nationalist Modernity

Las Vegas in Singapore: Violence, Progress, and the Crisis of Nationalist Modernity

Guest Editorial Special Issue—Selected Papers From ICOPS2020 & APCOPTS2020

The IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS) is held annually, sponsored by the Plasma Science and Applications Committee (PSAC) of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Science Society (NPSS). The 47th IEEE NPSS ICOPS was organized ONLINE from December 06 to 10, 2020, by the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The ICOPS2020 was co-organized together with the 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma and Terahertz Science (APCOPTS) which is envisioned as the future Asian version of the ICOPS series of conferences. The ICOPS2020 was initially planned as an onsite physical conference from May 24 to 28, 2020, at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was shifted to online virtual conference. The conference’s technical program included a wide range of plasma science and technology topics, which ranged from basic and fundamental research to traditional and emerging technology applications. Since the ICOPS2020 was co-organized with APCOPTS, it also had a very strong coverage of fields related to terahertz science and applications. A total of 627 presentations from scientists and participants from over 41 countries were made at ICOPS2020 with a record total registration of 754. All presentations were recorded and were available to the registered participants for 90 days after the conference was over. The program also included a women-in-engineering talk by Jackie Y. Ying from A* Star Singapore and a young professionals networking symposium on “Plasma Entrepreneurship” with the theme “Plasma entrepreneurship—Active translation of cutting-edge research to commercially viable product.”

The Marina Bay Sands Complex in Singapore: A Modern Marvel of Structure and Technology

The paper presents architectural and structural analysis of the Marina Bay Sands complex in Singapore, which consists of a hotel, an exhibition and convention centre with shopping centers, two theatres and Art-Science museum. The Moshe Safdie Architects architectural studio created an unusual complex that shows Singapore as a center of innovation, culture and entertainment. This complex fits perfectly into the architecture of Singapore, which is full of ecological solutions and surrounded by vegetation that is dominated by orchids (the national flower of Singapore). Hotel Marina Bay Sands is the main building of the complex. The hotel complex consists of three 55-storey towers and is situated on the axes of two streets. The spectacular design, which is now the island’s hallmark, required many complicated structural solutions that can be considered as a modern marvel of structure and technology. The design of the hotel building, the co-contractor of which was Arup Company, due to its geometry and location on the reclaimed land of Marina Bay was recognized as the most difficult architectural task in the world. The important aim in the design of the whole complex was to ensure perfect sound and thermal insulation inside the buildings while using natural elements. In the Art-Science Museum, as well as in the two theatres, a façade cladding system consisting of blocks of mineral wool was used, which significantly increases the evacuation time in the event of a fire. The complex, which is characterized by high strength buildings, good acoustics and high fire safety, was created thanks to multi-sector cooperation. Marina Bay Sands complex have played important role in development of technological and structural solutions for such type of structures.

Virtual Special Issue Dedicated to the 10th International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT), Symposium C: Semiconductor Photonics

This Special Issue is associated with the 10th International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT), Symposium C: Semiconductor Photonics held on 23–28 June, 2019 at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. Organised through the Materials Research Society of Singapore (MRS-S), ICMAT has been held since 2001 and has attracted strong interest amongst the global materials science and engineering research communities. The 10th conference in the ICMAT series attracted over 3,500 delegates with a number of keynote and plenary presentations notably including four Nobel Laureates in Physics and Chemistry. The ICMAT conference consists of a number of topical symposia. Symposium C was organized jointly with Australian MRS and co-chaired by Professors Dao-Hua Zhang (NTU, Singapore), Chennupati Jagadish (ANU, Australia), Stephen J. Sweeney (University of Surrey, UK), Boon S. Ooi (KAUST, Saudi Arabia), Hao Gong (NUS, Singapore) and Weijun Fan (NTU, Singapore). The Symposium focused on recent developments in materials for applications in photonic devices covering systems including III-V and II-VI semiconductors, group IV alloys for silicon compatibility, oxides and perovskites for solar cell and emitter applications, quantum dot based devices and in general a wide variety of organic and inorganic materials spanning applications from the ultra-violet through to the mid-infrared. In total, 20 invited and 53 oral and 19 poster papers were presented over the four days of technical sessions.

Artscience Museum an Embedded Stand-Alone Art

This paper reviews and analyses the process and built-up of the ArtScience Museum. It touches on the history, building features and Moshe Safdie’s design approach in forming the museum’s architecture. Furthermore, it explores the motivations in having a cultural institution within the Marina Bay precinct and the correlation of what it was intended to be with the identity it has formed today. The Art Science Museum can be seen as a form of an add-on to Marina Bay Sands as the tender competition project included a design for a cultural institution. However, despite it being a form of enhancement, the ArtScience Museum arose and served its purpose being an intriguing form of architecture and a place for learning for people alike.

An Analysis of the Importance of Local Support Factors of the Development of Integrated Resorts

The casino-based integrated resort (IR), which started in Las Vegas in the United States, has moved to Asia and successfully opened Macau’s IR and Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands. As of 2019, three IRs, Inspire, Paradise City, and Midan City, are being constructed in Yeongjongdo Island and, among them, Paradise City is currently in operation after completing its first stage of development. Although the planned creation of three integrated resorts on Yeongjongdo Island was accompanied by the government’s policy support and legal support, the support of the local residents for the IR development projects can have a different effect from that of other areas. For the development of integrated resorts, not only the policy and legal support but also the local support is an important factor. So, this study was conducted focusing on which part of the integrated resort development project should be considered important to get sufficient local support. The results of this study showed that the resort operators and local residents have different opinions on the importance of local support factors. The so-called integrated resort experts considered the environmental and socio-cultural factors important, while the local residents considered factors such as the establishment and completion of the development plan as well as the sustainability as the most important factors. It is expected that this study will contribute to the formation of trust in the relevant policies by disclosing the contents of the implementation and system improvement of IR development projects and providing participation opportunities for residents in the process. This study will be also able to provide objective guidance in decision-making to policymakers who plan the development of such integrated resorts by identifying the factors important to elicit support from the local residents in advance, as well as to public or private developers who want to proceed with IR development projects.

Bird of the turning tide

Bird of the turning tide

New directions for the dense city: Moshe Safdie in Singapore

In 1965, Singapore declared its independence and initiated a process of modernisation aiming to erase any evidence of its colonial past. Thedevelopmentalist orientation of Singapore, as Rem Koolhaas defined it, together with the formula “displace, destroy, replace,” became the theoretical instruments used to implement the urban vision for the future city. Singapore has thus become the contemporary urban laboratory of the Asia Pacific Region and due to its limited area for construction, turned into an experimental epicentre in the field of dense dwelling. A protagonist of this experimentation has been the Israeli/Canadian architect Moshe Safdie, designer of the Integrated resort casino Marina Bay Sands (2010), an exemplary feature of Singapore’s drive for development. This paper focuses on Safdie’s theoretical work, casting light on the ideological shift from his early modern residential project Habitat‘67, built during the Expo in Montreal (Canada) in 1967, to the contemporary residential complex Sky Habitat, completed in 2015 in Singapore. While Habitat’67 represented the manifesto of Safdie’s social utopia, envisaging itself as a prototypical residential component of the future city, Sky Habitat is a private gated community, which targets an upper-class market. And yet, Safdie’s two projects, distant in time and social ideals, display comparable strategies, as the use of similar architectural solutions and the permanence of urban modern utopian principles. These strategies underpin two other projects designed recently by Safdie in China: the Golden Dream Bay in Qinhuangdao (2016) and Chongqing Chaotianmen (design phase), which propose further elaboration of Sky Habitat’s urban principles. This paper will investigate how utopian urban strategies elaborated during the Modern period and advanced and tested in the 1960s and 1970s, have become material of experimentation for new forms of living in the congested 21st century city, evolving the concept of urban density in “the city that could be”.

Vibration serviceability of Helix Bridge, Singapore

Helix Bridge is a key feature of the iconic Marina Bay Sands development in Singapore. It usually functions as a pedestrian link between the Esplanade and Sands Casino/Hotel, but is occasionally used as a viewing platform for events in Marina Bay that have centred on a small purpose-built stadium opposite the bridge. To supplement the stadium capacity, integral cantilevered ‘pods’ have been built into the bridge. Because of its dual role, the Land Transport Authority of Singapore commissioned a vibration serviceability evaluation of Helix Bridge following a specification developed by Arup Australia. This evaluation was carried out in three stages. First, an experimental campaign comprising multi-shaker modal testing was used to estimate modal properties. Next, limited pedestrian and crowd testing directly evaluated the dynamic response to individuals and small groups walking, running or jumping. Finally, modal properties were utilised, with bespoke simulation software, to predict the performance of the bridge under extreme crowd loading using models specified in the most up-to-date design guidance on crowd loading for pedestrian bridges and stadia. The bridge performance proved to be acceptable, both in direct testing with small groups and in the simulations of large crowds.

11-12 November 2015 Marina Bay Sands, Singapore Step Advising Families Across Generations

11-12 November 2015 Marina Bay Sands, Singapore Step Advising Families Across Generations

18th Federation of Asian Veterinary Associations Congress

Australian Veterinary JournalVolume 93, Issue 4 p. 127-132 CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS 18th Federation of Asian Veterinary Associations Congress 28–30 November 2014 Marina Bay Sands, Singapore Anne Jackson, Anne Jackson Editor in ChiefSearch for more papers by this author Anne Jackson, Anne Jackson Editor in ChiefSearch for more papers by this author First published: 26 March 2015 https://doi.org/10.1111/avj.12320_2Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume93, Issue4April 2015Pages 127-132 RelatedInformation

Reading Walden Pond at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore

Reading Walden Pond at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore

Guest Editorial

This section contains upgraded papers originally published at The CIB W099 International Conference on "Modelling and Building Health and Safety”, which was organised and hosted by the Department of Building, National University of Singapore (NUS). It was held on 10 -11 September 2012 at the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Center, Singapore. The focal objectives of this section are to explore the integration and application of new techniques, technologies and strategies towards attaining verifiable improvements in occupational safety and health in construction.

Cultural Context in Architecture of Marina Bay Sands, Singapore

It is the human intelligent enlightenments, particularly presented by that of Moshe Safdie that has constructed the world’s groundbreaking architectural work--Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. The designer’s appropriate interpretation of cultural context of this architecture has endowed it with vitality and energy, making it the paradigm of soul dwelling and spiritual home of human beings. It ushers a door for modern architectures to be built with rich flavor of spirituality.

Eastern genomics promises

A report on the Bio-IT World Asia meeting, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, 6-8 June 2012.

Eastern genomics promises

A report on the Bio-IT World Asia meeting, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, 6-8 June 2012.

The science and art of managing retinal disease

The Asia–Pacific Vitreo–Retina Society (APVRS) held its 5th Congress at the brand new Marina Bay Sands Casino and Convention Center in Singapore from 19 to 21 November 2010. The meeting was entitled ‘The Science and Art of Managing Retinal Diseases’, and was truly a sharing of information with the goal of combining evidence-based medicine and the art of healing to optimally treat retinal disease during this rapidly advancing era. There were over 700 participants from 30 countries, with knowledge shared between international and Asia–Pacific speakers. In addition, as Congress President Adrian Koh (Eye and Retina Surgeons, Singapore; Retina Centre International, Singapore) wished, the conference helped to build a spirit of unity and friendship among investigators in the Asia–Pacific region and internationally. The APVRS was founded in 2006 with the visionary leadership of the late Professor Yasuo Tano and APVRS Secretary General Dennis Lam (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China), and has a promising future, with the 2011 and 2012 meetings planned to take place in India and Hong Kong, respectively.