Photos of Marina Barrage
November 3, 2008 by Eugene
Filed under Singapore, Water, Air and Land
The Marina Barrage was officially opened last Friday, together with the launch of the annual Clean and Green Singapore. The new Marina Barrage is a 350-meter wide dam built across the Marina channel, forming Singapore’s first reservoir in the city and our 15th reservoir with a catchment area of one-sixth the size of Singapore.
The Marina Barrage serves several benefits such as increasing our water supply with the Marina Reservoir meeting more than 10% of our current water demand, alleviating flooding in the low-lying areas in the city, and serving as a lifestyle attraction with recreational activities such as windsurfing and kayaking.
We visited the Marina Barrage over the weekend and took some photos:
Bird’s-eye view of the Marina Barrage building (photo of a banner)
View from roof garden
Playing with water in the fountain
Roof garden with excellent view of the Singapore Flyer
Solar park with 405 solar panels generating electricity for the building
Inside the Sustainable Singapore Gallery
Learning about the water history of Singapore in the Gallery
Singapore’s water story from the 1960s to 2000s
Gallery on the Active, Beautiful, Clean Waters Programme
Model of the Marina Barrage in operation
The Marina Barrage
Water Wally welcomes visitors
Families and pets enjoying a walk along the Marina Barrage
View of the Marina Barrage building
The gates were lowered to release water from the reservoir to the sea
You can also watch a 30-second short video of the Marina Barrage that we created using the photos.
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very nice pictures taken. it makes me want to go down and visit the place. *Thumbs Up* :)
Nice photos. Wished I could have been there to see the gates in operation. I heard that the contractors required about 10hours to install 1gate
Just checking if there is any conducted or educational activities if I bring a group of students to the Marina Barrage?
You can book a tour of the Marina Barrage Visitor Centre at http://www.pub.gov.sg/marina/mbvisitorcentre/Pages/default.aspx.
Oh great. I am visiting singapore this Dec. I can visit this place.
hey can we like play football on the roof area?:)
I been there on 1 Jan 09; where they are having 2 days family carnival held on 31 Dec 08 & 1 Jan 09. A place that must go!!
i love the barrage pls go there and have a look guys and gurls.
I’m a mechatronic engineering student from Institute of Technical Education,Singapore.I’ve been there last month,with my classmates and class advisor.It’s one of the most intersting places in Singapore.I think,all the Singaporeans will proud of it.:)
wat does marina barrage called in chinese??????
滨海堤坝
Verry cooooooooooooooooooooooool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great article. I visited the marina barrage a week back on a trip to singapore. I am a student of architecture and I would like to know who designed it. Can anybody please tell me who is the architect of the marina barrage?
The architect is Architects Team 3, http://www.at3.com.sg/. More info on the Marina Barrage, http://www.aaee.net/Website/E3SA.htm
thanks mr Eugene.
that info might turn out to be real useful for me.
Another milestone for this small nation with great aspirations! Good!
Hi Eugene,
It’s really nice pictures. Could u allow to use some of the photos in our calendar? It’s not for commercial. We are going to create a new calendar (2010) for our company internal use. We are collecting SG scenes photos to use in our calendar. And we will give this calendar to our clients too. Please let me know is it possible?
Thanks you so much!
Kay