Journal (tales of three cities)

Journal TALES of THREE CITIES ONG WEI HOOW 0304468

Marina Barrage serves as the reservoir in the city. While in the same time, it also provides other function for the users as well. For instance, the openness public space in Marina Barrage encourages people to carry out outdoor activities. Jogging, promenading and kite flying are the major activities can be found there.

This is the 5 degree Celsius Cloud Forest in Garden by The Bay. The plantation inside allows the people to engage more with the nature and creates a refreshing open space for the public as well. The public can experience the peaceful garden within the crowd city of Singapore.

The contemporary roof design parasites on the historical buildings along Clarke Quay. This combination of built form is hardly be seemed around Singapore. For instance, the rhythm between the modern design steel roof with the ashlar wall on the historical buildings will create the sense of uniqueness for the user.

All the skyscrapers in Marina Bay are extended and orchestrated with new iconic developments continuously. The extending buildings create an amazing skyline with various colour of lighting along Marina Bay. This attracts the visitors to enjoy the view of skyline at night at the promenade area.

Besides Singapore, the building in Hong Kong are growing vertically as well. The verticality of the built form saves the land uses in the city. Hence, it has becoming a trend for other cities for urban designing and planning.

Clarke Quay can be defined as the place with two souls. The built form and movement pattern there are the same all the time. However, the activities that happening there are totally a contrast between day (right) and night (left). During the day, the area is silent and empty while at the night, the people have their dinner or party in Clarke Quay.

The impressive light and water show in Marina Bay Sands attracts the citizen and tourists to spend their night there. The show is showing for free to the public every night from 8pm to 9.30pm. This is the main reason that the public open space is so crowded every night.

Clarke Quay is so happening and crowded with the activities around. This place is sharing the common activity which is ‘play’ but in different style respectively. Dining restaurants, bars, pubs & clubs can be found in Clarke Quay. Hence, the users will experience pedestrian oriented activities (POA) along this area.

The street performing art in KowLoon City, Hong Kong is one of the cultural activities there.

The public is quite enjoy and also attracted to this kind of activity. This really explains that how the cultural activity attracts people and makes the place to be functionally.

Times Square, Manhattan City serves as the major commercial intersection of the city.

Hence, various of commercial activities will be carried out here from day to night. Hence, the pedestrian movement pattern has to be well planned to ensure that the public can access to anywhere within Manhattan City.

The Helix Bridge is a pedestrian bridge linking Marina Centre with Marina South to create the seamless connectivity for the users within Marina Bay area. The design of the bridge itself successfully capture the people’s eyes when they are using the bridge. In addtion, its curved arc in plan enables people to descend continuously into the bay front promenades on each side.

Bugis Street, Singapore is the most crowded place ever. Small and insufficient pedestrian walkway cause a chaotic movement pattern in Bugis Street. Hence, the people have to squeeze with each other when walking along the street. To improve this situation, a proper pedestrian walkway has to be proposed along Bugis Street.

Orchard Road is full of shopping malls and retails. The pedestrian-friendly walkway is aligned along Orchard Road. The walkway is connected to any shopping malls and MRT stations around Orchard Road. This makes Orchard Road to be so accessible and convenient for the public.

Beside Singapore, Hong Kong is also known as accessible city as well. Different types of public transport and comprehensive pedestrian walkway can be found at any corner of the city. Therefore, the public can freely move from one place to another place in Hong Kong.

Road allows the people to move from one place to another freely. Hence, road is one of the way to increase the connectivity within Manhattan City. In the other hand, road also acts as the urban form generator within the city during urban planning in Manhattan City.

The artistic environment overwhelmed Orchard Road with Six Urban People Art Sculptures.

Hence, these art sculptures become the attraction for the tourists in Orchard Road. Every piece of art as each person portrays a specific character, like the purple one as a shopper and the green one as a businessman carrying a briefcase

The cutting edge design concept is the main soul of ION Orchard. It enhances the sense of architecture along Orchard Road as well. Moreover, the organic form of ION Orchard becomes the significant landmark along the street. People will treat ION Orchard as the gathering point as its design is so remarkable for everyone .

Singapore is one of the city that preserves most of the historical buildings while urban planning. For example, the historical and classical shop houses in the South Quay are still maintained in term of its building form and faรงade. However, the only change they made is in term of function for respective building.

Marina Bay Sands Hotel is one of the contemporary architecture in the world. The contemporary design makes the architecture become the landmark of the Singapore nowadays. Luxury rooms and suites, restaurants, retails, convention center, park and even casino can be found inside Marina Bay Sands Hotel. This are those main attractions for the people to visit the hotel.

Cloud Forest, Garden by The Bay is a 35-metre tall mountain that covered with vegetation and the world’s tallest indoor waterfall. The vegetation are the plants life from tropical highlands up to 2,000-metres above sea level. There are many cantilever walkways allows the public to walk from the top to the bottom of the Cloud Forest. Hence, the visitor can view all the vegetation from every single level.