Marina Bay Sands Art Path

Where world-class art and architecture meet

Open your eyes to a spectacular collection of first-class art installations, lovingly commissioned by Marina Bay Sands architect Moshe Safdie. Discover why these 11 pieces blur the boundaries between art, science, architecture and nature, on a scale so dramatic that they’re hard to miss.

Enlarge CLOSE	ANTONY GORMLEY, DRIFT Location: Hotel Tower 1 Atrium Anthony Gormley, 2009 39.6 x 14.6 x 23 meters Look up and find Drift, a massive, cloudlike stainless steel polyhedral matrix that stretches between the 5th and 12th floors. Weighing 14.8 tons, Drift represents the chaos of weather as a biological and cosmological entity. Consisting of 16,100 linked steel rods, this delicate-looking work required the expertise of 60 welders and engineers to assemble.

Enlarge CLOSE	CHONGBIN ZHENG, RISING FOREST, 升林 Location: Hotel Atrium CHONGBIN ZHENG, 2010 83 x 3 meter high beakers Discover Rising Forest, a soaring canopy of 83 trees housed in giant glazed stone ware vessels cast from aged clay mined in China’s Yellow Dragon Mountain. Following a tradition of ceramic firing dating back to the 11^th century, each of pot was born in a custom kiln the size of a small building.

Enlarge CLOSE	JAMES CARPENTER, BLUE REFLECTION FAÇADE WITH LIGHT ENTRY PASSAGE Location: Upper and Lower Casino Podium Wall (exterior) JAMES CARPENTER, 2010 112 x 17 meters James Carpenter’s Blue Reflection Façade with Light Entry Passage undulates with aserpentine quality along the front façade of The Shoppes at Marina Bay. This series of alternating stainless steel and glass fins captures, amplifies and embeds a sense of the sky into the building.

Enlarge CLOSE	NED KAHN, WIND ARBOR Location: Hotel Atrium (exterior) NED KAHN, 2009 15 x 55meters Ned Kahn’s shimmering Wind Arbor drapes across the entire western façade of the Hotel Atrium. Covering an area equivalent to 5 1/2 Olympic-sized swimming pools, this gorgeous, scintillating sculpture knits 260,000 independently moving metallic flappers together, giving the impression that the piece pulses, ebbs and flows with the rhythm of the wind.

Enlarge CLOSE	NED KAHN, TIPPING WALL Location: Hotel Tower 3 NED KAHN, 2009 Ned Kahn’s second piece is a whimsical blend of art and science. Tipping Wall features 7,000 mechanical polycarbonate channels that seesaw left or right when filled with water. The channels spill over and over again, animating a glass-reinforced concrete wall the size of a basketball court with kinetic movement.

Enlarge CLOSE	NED KAHN, RAIN OCULUS Location: The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands NED KAHN, 2009 22 x 22 meters Ned Kahn’s Rain Oculus is a 22-meter diameter acrylic bowl set on a 90-ton steel structure. It releases a swirling vortex of water from a hole in its base to the canal that runs two stories below.

Enlarge CLOSE	SOL LEWITT, WALL DRAWING #917 AND #915 Locations: Hotel Tower 1 Reception, Underground pedestrian network to Bayfront MRT station SOL LEWITT, 1999, 1999 #917, Arcs and Circles 4.34x 20.32 meters #915, Arcs, Circle and Irregular Bands 3.96x 16.76 meters The bold, colorful geometric designs of the late Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) make the viewer more aware of the surrounding space. Devised the artist himself, they were painstakingly executed by a group of LeWitt-trained artists and four local artists through the Singapore Tyler Print Institute.

Enlarge CLOSE	ZHAN WANG, ARTIFICAL ROCK #71 and #86 Location: Lions Bridge ZHAN WANG, 2010 #71: 62.5 x 74 x 38 inches #86: 90.5 x 70.75 x 31.5 inches Drawing inspiration from The Scholar’s Rock which has long been held in high regard by educated and upper-class persons in China, Zhang Wang’s abstract sculptures with mirror-like surfaces reflect the artist’s views of rapid changes in China’s modernization.

Enlarge CLOSE	ISRAEL HADANY, MOTION Location: Hotel Tower 1 Atrium ISRAEL HADANY, 2012 Israel Hadany introduces nature into this architectural space with Motion that consists of two ‘islands’ made from amorphously shaped glass plates that been painstakingly glued together to form large glass sections, and partly bordered by a Jura Beige stone bench. Motion represents the movement of river currents and its interaction with dry land.