{"id":725,"date":"2012-10-14T15:42:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T15:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/?p=725"},"modified":"2013-04-23T09:46:04","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T09:46:04","slug":"wind-arbor-on-the-facade-of-the-marina-bay-sands-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/2012\/wind-arbor-on-the-facade-of-the-marina-bay-sands-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind Arbor on the facade of the Marina Bay Sands Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have already walking several times in front of the Singapore Marina Bay Sands Hotel and I found the facade with the Arbor Wind pretty impressive, I had always wondered how it worked. The answer is simple: with the wind. Small &#8220;flappers\u201d are mounted on hinges and can move independently of each other in response to wind movements. The effect is really impressive when there is strong wind.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_726\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/10\/wa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-726\" class=\" wp-image-726 \" title=\"Wind Arbor\" alt=\"Wind Arbor\" src=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/10\/wa-584x438.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/10\/wa-584x438.jpg 584w, https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/10\/wa-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/img1.skisoo.com\/2012\/10\/wa.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-726\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wind Arbor<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Returning from a walk in the Garden By The Bay, I took some videos with my GoPro:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wind Arbor - Marina Bay Sands\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sU4pIMeAQCY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For the technical details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>6800 square meters (5 and a half Olympic swimming pools)<\/li>\n<li>260 000 aluminum \u201cflappers\u201d independent of each other<\/li>\n<li>From 15 meters high on the north side to 55 meter high south side<\/li>\n<li>Designed by the famous kinetic art sculptor Ned Kahn in 2010<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have already walking several times in front of the Singapore Marina Bay Sands Hotel and I found the facade with the Arbor Wind pretty impressive, I had always wondered how it worked. The answer is simple: with the wind. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/2012\/wind-arbor-on-the-facade-of-the-marina-bay-sands-hotel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,39],"tags":[62,63,80,43,114],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gopro","category-singapore","tag-art-sculpture","tag-kinetic-art","tag-marina-bay-sands","tag-sculpture","tag-sin"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skisoo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}