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Today, on the island of Singapore, the next phase of skyscraper evolution is underway.
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And this time it's about building sideways.
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You can say we're bringing the ground to the sky.
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And you can say in an equally challenging way we're bringing the sky down to earth.
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World-famous architect Moshe Safdie is pioneering a radical new vision of what the skyscraper can be.
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Safdie designed the beautiful $6 billion Marina Bay Sands Resort in Singapore.
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Bringing the new concept of 'horizontal' to the skyscraper...
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A giant platform, large enough to park four A-380 passenger jets, creates space for gardens,
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swimming pools and sun-decks. Six hundred feet off the ground.
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I thought that would have an amazing magic to it and it would actually serve a very functional purpose of creating open public space,
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with a connection with nature that you couldn't possibly do any other way.
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You look over the edge and you have a sense of where you are
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but at the same time it's like a place you would find you are not on the ground
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only you are somehow elevated.
