Marina Bay Sands - Public Realm and Retail Galleria
With planning considerations inspired by the Roman concept of a spinal city, the Marina Bay Sands commercial heart-- Theatres, Casino, Convention Centre, Retail and related public thoroughfares-- is organized to be self-orienting, and extend city life, in and through the Integrated Resort development. The public spaces are characterized by the integration of landscape and filtered, natural daylight. Like any vital urban place, it is designed as a public meeting place for activities by day and by night.
The design concept for the waterfront promenade was to keep the adjacent building scale low and also transparent to the interior spaces, so that the marketplace indoors and the promenade outdoors became one. The waterfront itself becomes an extension of the existing river promenades which are actively utilized by night, lined with shopping, food stalls, and follies and event spaces along the water's edge.