How Marina Bay Sands Balances a Ship on Three Leaning Towers

Three towers that lean at 26 degrees, each one caught in the middle of falling. Balanced across the top of them, a ship 340 metres long - the length of four and a half jumbo jets - with a garden, restaurants and an infinity pool 200 metres up. And one end of that ship flies 66.5 metres past the final tower, held up by nothing: the largest public cantilever in the world. This is Marina Bay Sands, and here is the engineering that makes it stand. We cover why the towers lean and why that is so dan