03/09/2026
Meet Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. 🇸🇬
The architectural vision came from Moshe Safdie Architects, while Arup was the engineering team responsible for turning that ambitious design into a buildable structure.
And this is where things get fascinating.
The three towers are approximately 55 storeys high, curved and sloping, and they are structurally designed to behave independently. Yet sitting on top of them is the enormous SkyPark, stretching about 340 metres long and 38 metres wide.
So how do you place a massive structure across three towers that can move independently?
That was one of the major engineering challenges of Marina Bay Sands.
The SkyPark could not simply be treated as one rigid structure sitting on three stationary columns. Engineers had to account for movement between the towers while maintaining the stability, strength and functionality of the SkyPark.
Several companies played crucial roles in making the vision possible
SsangYong Engineering & Construction — Principal Contractor
JFE Engineering Corporation Engineering and Yongnam — Major steelwork contractor
What makes Marina Bay Sands remarkable is that it wasn't created by architecture alone.
Moshe Safdie imagined it.�Arup engineered the solution.�And a team of specialist contractors figured out how to physically build it.
This is a perfect example of how some of the world's most extraordinary buildings are created when architecture, structural engineering, steel fabrication and construction come together.
The architect creates the vision.
The engineers make the impossible possible.