Marina Bay Sands hotel

To understand the phenomenon of the Marina Bay Sands hotel, one must imagine Singapore in the early 2000s. It was already a prosperous financial hub, but it lacked tourist appeal. The government`s response was a large-scale project to transform the mouths of the Singapore River and the surrounding bay areas into a new, futuristic district—Marina Bay. This was not merely a developer`s initiative, but an intention to create a new symbol for the city-state from scratch.