"Jewel weaves together an experience of nature and the marketplace, dramatically asserting the idea of the airport as an uplifting and vibrant urban center, engaging travelers, visitors and residents, and echoing Singapore’s reputation as ‘The City in the Garden’." -Moshe Safdie

Fulfilling its mission as a connector between the existing terminals, Jewel combines two environments—an intense marketplace and a paradise garden—to create a new community-centric typology as the heart, and soul, of Changi Airport. Jewel re-imagines the center of an airport as a major public realm attraction. Jewel offers a range of facilities for landside airport operations, indoor gardens, leisure attractions, retail offerings and hotel facilities, all under one roof. A distinctive dome-shaped façade made of glass and steel adds to Changi Airport's appeal as one of the world's leading air hubs.

Based on the geometry of a torus, the building shape accommodates the programmatic need for multiple connections in the airport setting. At the heart of its glass roof is an oculus that showers water through a primary multistory garden, five stories through to the forest-valley garden at ground level. The core of the program is a 24-hour layered garden attraction that offers many spatial and interactive experiences for visitors. Four cardinal axes—north, south, east, and west—are reinforced by four gateway gardens, which orient visitors and offer visual connections to the internal surroundings and other airport terminals. By night, the glazed facade helps dematerialize the building, revealing the glowing garden within.

• Collaborators

  RSP Architects Planners & Engineers Pte Ltd: Executive Architect
  PWP Landscape Architecture: Landscape Design
  ICN International Singapore: Executive Landscape Architect
  RSP Architects Planners & Engineers Pte Ltd: Structure
  Buro Happold Engineering: Facades
  Atelier Ten: ESD
  Mott MacDonald: MEP
  Pentagram and Entro Communications: Signage/Wayfinding
  Benoy: Retail Interiors
  WET Design: Water Feature
  Lighting Planners Associates: Lighting Design

• Awards

  President’s Design Award, Singapore, 2020
  
  Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA), Building of the Year & Design Award, 2020
  
  Design for Asia, Grand & Gold Award, 2020
  
  Building of the Year (Public), ArchDaily, 2020
  
  Design Project of the Year, Tatler Design Awards, 2020
  
  Green Mark GoldPlus Award, Building and Construction Authority (BCA), 2018
  
  Universal Design Mark GoldPlus Award, Building and Construction Authority (BCA), 2018
  
  International Architecture Award, Chicago Athenaeum and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, 2016
  

• Clients

  Jewel Changi Airport Devt Pte. Ltd.

• Cost

  SGD $1.7 Billion