Singapore surges upwards

摘要

Part laboratory, part resort and part architectural gem, Fusionopolis is Singapore's newest mega-science facility. Visitors who walk through its theatre, shops and cafes, up past the gym and the bar to the 24th-floor swimming pool, may not realize that this is the biggest piston of Singapore's roaring science-based economic engine. It is a futuristic, twin-towered laboratory cluster for communications, materials and electronics research, and it's opening this month. Fusionopolis looks down on Singapore's flagship biological sciences conglomerate, Biopolis, just 600 metres away (see Nature 425, 746-747; 2003), as well as the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the National University Hospital.