Today I went to a showroom that gives a model of what the Marina Bay area is going to look like in a decade or so. It’s pretty different from what it looks like now (of course – this is Singapore). My office tower, Asia Square, is at the southern “edge” of development and has an unobstructed view of the Marina Bay lands and the waterways beyond, but if the full plan is completed we’ll have about 12 buildings between us and the water. In the pictures of the models below, the cream-coloured structures are yet-to-be-completed.
My current building is illuminated in the foreground; everything beyond it is unbuilt.
My current building is illuminated in the background; everything in front of it it is unbuilt.
We're all wondering how long this view is going to last...
But I do wonder how much of this is fantasy – I’m not sure there’s enough land to build all of the structures that they’ve created on this model.