2. Introduction of Marina Bay
In the 1800s, Marina Bay was a place where many ships
land at for immigrants, investors and traders to work, live,
and trade in Singapore.
Previously Marina Bay was adjoined to the sea. However,
due to the land reclamation of Marina Bay, the place has
changed, and the water flows into the bay now instead of
directly into the sea.
Now due to the good governance in Singapore and the
advanced technology, Marina bay has changed to a place
mainly for tourist attraction. Examples like malls, parks,
casinos, etc. were built for tourist attraction.
3. Clifford Pier
The Clifford Pier was built in 1933. It was a landing point
of the sea passengers and immigrants.
It was also know as the Red Lamp Pier.
The Clifford Pier had been changed to Marina South Pier
in 2006, to a retail, hotel centre, leisure and
entertainment,
This reconstruction was important to Singapore because
the reconstruction would benefit Singapore in increasing
the competitiveness between the other neighbouring
countries. The benefits of the change of Clifford Pier are
more investments, entertainment and jobs.
4. Clifford Pier
These benefits of Singapore’s economy are linked to one of
the Principles of Governance, “Leadership is Key”. With
honest and capable leaders, Singapore’s Stability would be
maintained and right decisions would be made for
Singapore. This would in turn earn the trust and support
of the public. One of the right decisions made was
reconstructing the Clifford Pier to enable it to become a
place for tourist attractions, investments, leisure and it
creates more jobs for people to boost Singapore’s
economy. Therefore, this shows how Marina Bay helped
Singapore sustain its growth in the 21st century.
5. A ‘Green’ Singapore
There are a few eco-friendly structures being built and
designed for environment conservation purposes. One of
the in which is the eco-friendly detectorfan whereby it
converts solar energy from the sun into electrical energy
and to kinetic energy, to allow us to enjoy the wind
produced by the fan on a windy day and it helps conserve
energy as it uses sensors and we will not waste electricity if
we were to forget to switch off the fan.
6. A ‘Green’ Singapore
Another thing that conserves the environment is land
conservation. The government conserves land by keeping
a piece of grassland plain, meant for leisure, to fly kites
and exercise. This will also help reflect on Singapore’s
environment of being clean and green.
7. Marina Bay Link Mall
Marina Bay Link Mall is an underground shopping mall to
conserve land space as the government felt that something
useful can be done to that space. Not only can it attract
more investors to invest in the underground mall, it can
also allow the people taking public transport to buy things
along their way when taking the MRT which helps people
spend their waiting time.
8. Marina Bay Link Mall
This idea, which benefits the public, is linked to
‘Anticipate Change and Stay Relevant’. The
government anticipates changes and is forward
looking. Therefore the government can see the
benefits of conserving the land to built a shopping
mall in Marina Bay not only for relaxation but also
for economic growth like more foreign
investments will be made in the country.
9. Marina City Gallery
The Marina City Gallery shows the buildings of the whole
of Marina Bay. There were also some descriptions about
the different buildings being built like the Esplanade. The
buildings were shown in different colours: grey and white.
The grey buildings represents the old and past buildings
that had already existed even before Marina Bay Sands was
built. While the white buildings represents the present
and new buildings. There are also a few transparent
buildings which represents the future buildings that would
be built in future.
10. Marina City Gallery
This shows ‘Anticipate Change and Stay Relevant’
as the government looks forward to the future and
plans to build more buildings that would probably
help Singapore to sustain its growth in the 21st
century by improving Singapore’s economy.
11. Marina City Gallery
In the gallery, I have learnt that Marina Bay’s development
is important because it helps Singapore to stay
competitive with other neighbouring countries by
improving the standards of Singapore and attracting more
foreign investors in Singapore so that Singapore will grow
economically.
12. Marina Bay
Now in Marina Bay, there are banks, parks, mall, hotels
that makes Singapore more competitive and connected to
the world. This is due the good governance in Singapore
which allows so much changes which leads to growth in
economy.
Now there are Parks, shopping malls, casinos to help
entertain tourists and people in Singapore, which helps
improve the quality of our life.
13. Marina Bay Sands
It serves as a tourist attraction which attracts tourists by
setting up malls and attracting foreign investors to invest
in the malls.
It attracts tourists all around the world as there’re
different types of brands all over the world like Gucci,
Chanel and Fendi.
This was made possible because of the good governance in
Singapore where the government is forward looking and
decides to plan this to attract tourists.
