Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Hello Singapore, again.

On the way back home to Penang from Darwin, we stopped over in Singapore to attend Gek's niece Audrey's wedding to John.  Whilst there we also took up an invitation by Shin Kian to have guided tour by him of the new Singapore Sports Hub at Kallang.  Shin Kian had been a senior consultant engineer on the build project which was completed just a week before our visit.

The one open end of the stadium faces the city and is so designed to emit the Kallang Roar in its direction to let the city know that a game is on.

The steel work arching over the arena is supported by a kilometer ring of concrete and steel, using the same engineering principles as Filippo di ser Brunellesco used in 1436 when he designed and built the dome on top of Florence's Cathedral.

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