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From the so-called SkyPark atop Marina Bay Sands, designed by the Israeli American Canadian architect Moshe Safdie, you can take in the harbor and the colonial quarter and the city center and the East Coast Park and, on a clear day,chi straighteners the Indonesian island Batam and Malaysia's Johor state. Of course, most visitors to Marina Bay Sands are destined to spend their time gazing instead at the hypnotic glow of cherries or lemons cascading down the screens of one-armed bandits, but that's beside the point. At the Marina Bay Sands everything has been supersized, from the number of guest rooms (2,561) and the square footage of the adjacent convention center (1.3 million) to a quantity of retail space ex-ceding even that of Changi Airport. By the time of my visit, the resort was already logging 25,000 visitors a day, many pre-sumably headed for the tables. chi iron sale What makes that statistic particularly impressive is the knowledge that the government imposes a 100 Singaporean dollar tariff on locals to deter them from blowing the rent on sic-bo or blackjack. And yet, as a Singaporean Chinese friend explained on my visit, "If you think another $100 is going to keep a Chinese person from gambling, you're nuts." That same friend, who had flown in from her current home in Munich to meet me, chi on sale gazed around at the hordes cramming the colossal lobby of the Marina Bay Sands that first week and likened the place to an "intergalactic Bahnhof." chi curling irons So large are the spaces that even the ogling mobs seemed swamped in the air- conditioned vastness; huge elevator banks led to floors reserved for high rollers; huge art installations floated high in the air; a huge basin called Rain Oculus, by the American environmental artist and sculptor Ned Kahn, awaited the plumbing that would turn it into a fountain (or a big dentist��s rinse bowl, depending on your viewpoint) chi iron cascading through a pedestrian plaza and onto the retail center below. The big culinary stars that are a requisite of every new tourist enterprise are naturally part of the scheme at Marina. seoh135@&# Comments
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