Frozen Tundra - Polar Bear exhibit

View of the polar bear exhibit from the indoor gallery. It is a very barren, concrete enclosure with just a small pit that can be filled with substrate (currently pebbles).

It looks like this enclosure was built about 25 years ago.....
The same goes for the wolverine exhibit.

While the underwater viewing area appears to be spectacular and able to hold vast groups of observers, the land area for Singapore's new Polar Bear enclosure is downright disgraceful. If you had uploaded the photo and not put a label on where it was located in the world it would not have been impossible to convince people that the shot was of an obscure zoo enclosure that was 75 years old. This new exhibit is terrible in so many ways: floor of cement, ugly mock-rock, barren cell except for a tiny stack of pebbles, zero natural substrate, and terrible sightlines. The Wolverine all-indoor enclosure is also atrocious, and it seems as if the Raccoon Dogs have fared the best of the trio. All in all the zoo has taken a major step backwards with the Tundra complex.

Here is a noteworthy, modern Polar Bear exhibit at Columbus Zoo in the U.S.A:

http://www.zoochat.com/558/polar-bear-exhibit-polar-frontier-315472/

I agree with Snowleopard, this land area is terrible and disappointing. It certainly does look as if the raccoon dogs got an OK exhibit, and the wolverines definitely lucked out, but I guess this exhibit for Inuka is an improvement on the only other home he has ever known. Not that that makes it acceptable though.

The raccoon dogs also did not get an OK exhibit, all concrete, all indoors, no natural structures. And that for a species that likes to dig a lot and tends to be quite active....

...and enjoys to sunbath.

I got to say I'm really disappointed with this new exhibit in my own local zoo. I was expecting it to look icy and arctic like after seeing the initial artist drawing, but it just seem like an upgraded version of the old exhibit, all concrete, just bigger. Given the modern times and the reputation of WRS as one of the best zoo with brilliant exhibits, this is just unacceptable to me.

The polar bear exhibit in colombus zoo is just brilliant! why cant singapore do something like this?

I have to echo Lintworm and Snowleopard here; this archaic exhibit is appalling. I was fortunate enough to spend a a few days in Singapore a few years ago and there were some fantastic exhibits at the bird park and a few good ones at the Night Safari and zoo. The designers and backers of these new exhibits should be ashamed of themselves this kind of exhibit is so antiquated it's utterly unacceptable. This is essentially a concrete pit and with the climate of Singapore already being entirely unsuitable for the species the design even prevents exposure to a natural breeze.
Zooboy28, I have to disagree with you the raccoon dog and wolverine exhibits ate just as bad if not worse. Why build exhibits for these animals if you can't meet their basic needs and why are so many species in this new facility denied natural light?
Naming this "Frozen Tundra" is incredibly disingenuous; there's not a blade of grass or patch of moss to be seen, in fact this exhibit more closely resembles a crater on the moon!
My girlfriend and I are going to Australia and onto Papua New Guinea this Summer. I was considering taking her to either Singapore or Tokyo on the way by means of an extended layover, I think I subconsciously decided Tokyo when I saw the first photos of river safari but these recent photos reinforce that decision.
Thank you for taking the time to upload these photographs Zooish