Moshe Safdie’s (see website) lush, sensory, expansive imaginative greenhouse space is not a proposal. Construction has begun on the nature preserve, known as ‘Jewel Changi Airport’, measuring over 1.4 million square feet. The centerpiece of the design is a spout pouring forth a 131-foot-tall waterfall called the ‘Rain Vortex’. The water is recycled for use throughout the building and is a lit cascade at night.

With this design, Israeli-born Moshe Safdie seeks to reinvent the modern airport as having a relationship with nature and not representing a symbol of modernity that is alien to a natural environment.