Or if you just want to enjoy the views and the people, just sit back and let the cool sea breeze and the sounds of the waves ease your troubles away. The cable ski park is not restricted to wakeboarding and waterskiing. One can also try trick ski, kneeboard, or even surf without the wave. But I have not seen those yet. Playground Big Splash was previously known as Big Splash, a very popular water theme park in the s. The old place brings back loads of childhood memories for me and my family. I spent many a weekend sliding down the water slides, and hanging loose in a huge tyre float drifting down the convoluted water routes.
But it was a deep disappointment when I realized it will not be restored as a water theme park as it was deemed not economically viable! It has been transformed into a young and sporty lifestyle hub for the young and young at heart instead. Attractions include a wide range of premium wine-and-dine outlets and various sporting goods rental outlets.
There is also a childcare centre and playground for kids. One eating place to try is the Old Town Cafe. I grew up playing in the old water park, it will now be a place that hold a different set of memories for these children in the future.
You might be a bit disappointed if you are looking for something resembling the white powdery sand of Phuket beaches. The sand here is coarse and there are only a few stretches where you can really walk comfortably barefooted.
If you are looking for a place to get that beautiful tan while sipping pina colada under the swaying coconut trees, then you are better off at the Siloso beach on Sentosa. Underpasses also link the park to the nearby Marine Parade housing estate and the Bayshore condominium. For details of bus routes and where the bus services are available, visit the SBS Transit website to plan your route and check the bus guide.
Use Google maps to plan your travelling route. Last but not least, you can always call a cab or Grab. Do find out the exact place you are going so your driver know which is the nearest exit to drop you. Your email address will not be published. Skip to content Search for:. My Filing Cabinet filing seemingly useless information, quietly waiting to be useful. He told me that at first, he thought it would only take ten years to pay off his flat; as Marine Parade became a more desirable area to live in, the property prices rose with the influx of more affluent Singaporeans and migrants, it had become clear it would take fifteen years to pay off his debt.
Then twenty. Then thirty. The beach he grew up on no longer exists, where the land met the water is now the three-lane Marine Parade Road. If it does start there. Marine Parade now is indistinguishable from any other old HDB estate in Singapore; it is quiet, a little grey, but equally serene, woozy with trees, a place where people live. Old residents of Marine Parade still remember this place as a series of desolate mud and sand flats, the conveyor belt of dirt that turned nearby hills into fill material for reclamation, flattening Bedok and Tanah Merah, the wind picking up and spreading dust over everything.
Or the abundance of the fish along that coast, before the reclamation dredging stirred up enough silt to ward off any marine life, and the increasing number of tankers in the Strait ensured no such aquatic population would return. But it is not possible to recognise any of this from the place itself.
By all appearances, this sleight of land has succeeded: it is ordinary. Though to those who were excluded by this literal act of nation-building the land is anything but ordinary; fishermen who never quite found their feet on reclaimed land, communities uprooted and rerouted from their seaside kampong to HDBs further afield in Tampines or Bedok. It is acceptable, of course, that some things had to be sacrificed to achieve this level of success.
But as Singapore continues to intensify its development, with land reclamation stretching far into the future, the question of who the space is for in such a land-starved country looms ever-larger. This will become more important for Marine Parade as an ironic hypothetical future brews on the horizon: the East Coast could become a site for land reclamation again.
In this scenario, the future beachfront would become host to luxury waterside condominiums mirroring the preceding redevelopment of the Tanjong Pagar and Pasir Panjang port terminals into a sprawling 1, hectare waterfront destination. The legacy of land reclamation could then come full circle: private waterfront properties compulsorily purchased by the state to reclaim land for public housing; infrastructure and parks could be reclaimed again for high-value private accommodation.
Though unlike the case of the colonial and local elites who used to own coastal properties or frequent the swimming clubs, it would be commons becoming dispossessed and unlike those elites before them, the public would not be generously compensated for the loss of another coastline.
The technical process of land reclamation forms an eerily specific analogy to the socioeconomic contestation over space and memory in Singapore it constructs: a section of sea is isolated by perimeter bund; sand and dirt are poured in. The water is squeezed out by the pressure of fill material. To enable building on reclaimed land, the level of the settlement must be kept to a minimum; that is, the amount of water present in the composition of the soil.
Prefabricated vertical drains draw out the settlement through weep holes much quicker than it would drain naturally, hastening the process from years to months. The importance of water changes in scale: from where there was once an entire sea to fend off, the presence of a few millimetres could now compromise the structural integrity of an entire land mass.
According to public record, Lee Kuan Yew the founding father of the nation wanted to gift this park to the people, to give everyone access to the beachfront that was formerly private and partitioned. According to a few rogue NUS academics, the land reclamation technique that was implemented in the area was imperfect; if they built anything on it, the ground would have turned to mush.
Bulldozers and dump trucks then spread, graded and compacted the reclaimed land to its final levels. Residential units included private housing and high-rise flats built by HDB. Urban Redevelopment Authority.
Bedok planning area: Planning report Singapore: Urban Redevelopment Authority, pp. Call no. Singapore: Urban Redevelopment Authority, p. Ramachandra, S. Singapore landmark.
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