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Marina Bay Sands, the most expensive casino in the world located in Sinapore will soon open the world’s first ArtScience Museum. The concept of the “Welcoming Hand of Singapore” features 10 “fingers” of the museum anchored by a unique round base in the middle of the composition. Each finger reveals a different gallery. At the “fingertips” openings were created that illuminate the dramatically curved interior walls. The museum’s dish-like roof channels rainwater through the central atrium of the building creating a 35-meter water drop into a small pool. The rainwater is then recycled for use in the building’s restrooms. The author of the design is the world-renowned architect Moshie Safadie. The ArtScience Museum features 21 gallery spaces totaling 6,000 square meters that will deliver exhibits from art and science, media and technology to design and architecture.

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The design is an extension of the National Library of Austria from the Beijing-based architect Chris Prechteck. It is located close to the castle in Wien and contains a number of cultural facilities, creative studios, restaurants and shops. The spiraling structure offers 1 200 square meters of exhibition space as well as 600 square meters of underground multifunctional space. The spiraling structure features a mosaic form of crystal-like excisions along its body, allowing natural daylight to filter through to the interior. The movement of pedestrians in the streets has not been affected in any way. It creates some kind of an arch and the roof functions also as a garden. The solid structure offers at every point a different spatial experience and intuitively leads the visitors to the entrance hall.
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