BUILDING PARADISE
Nov 13, 2019
3 minutes
n “Big Yellow Taxi”, the pop song originally penned by Joni Mitchell, there’s a lament to urban blight in the lyrics “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.” The spectacular Jewel Changi Airport, however, is singing a different tune. The 135,700sqm complex is built on the site of a former carpark, and now houses Israeli-Canadian architect Moshe Safdie’s vision of paradise: the world’s tallest indoor waterfall surrounded by a lush garden populated by thousands of trees, regal palms, and
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