Sim Chi Yin Four caissons (watertight retaining structures) sit off the coast of Tuas, Singapore's westernmost area, awaiting use to reclaim a huge piece of land for the country's new container port terminal.
(...) They are temporarily stored here, near a long white structure stretching out to sea -- a series of joined caissons which will form a retaining wall for one of the pier structures where ships will dock. The 30-year project, which is primarily built on reclaimed land, will become the world's largest container port. Singapore is both lands- and sand-scarce, and building this new port, it is cutting use of sand in land reclamation by using construction materials excavated from tunneling for a new subway line and materials dredged from the seabed. Tuas. Singapore. 2017. From "Shifting Sands", 2017 — on-going. © Sim Chi Yin | Magnum Photos
