A cura di @Billy Pilgrim.

Morgan Passi intervista per CBC (broadcaster canadese) Moshe Safdie, l’architetto israelo-canadese che ha concepito “Jewel”, un complesso appena inaugurato all’interno dell’aeroporto Changi di Singapore.

Il complesso consta di una foresta, un parco, alcuni sentieri ed una cascata che scorre giù per nienteopodimeno che sette piani. Il tutto per un costo complessivo di 1,67 miliardi di dollari canadesi (circa 1.1 miliardi di euro).

It began in a competition. The airport wanted to build a new centre to connect and unify all the terminals. They needed more space [for] shopping and airport space. And then they said they wanted an attraction — something that would attract both Singaporeans and passengers.

Everyone in that competition was thinking dinosaurs, Disneyland, mummies and other such attractions. And I came up with the idea of just doing something much more timeless that will appeal to all ages — just a mythical garden, a paradise garden.

Out of that evolved the concept of an enormous glass roof, which contains that garden under which all the other things happen. And at some point I dipped the roof, the dome, in … the shape of a doughnut so that the entire roof drains into the centre.

That meant that every time it rains — which, in Singapore, is almost every day — you’re going to get torrential waterfalls coming out of that vortex.

Immagine da Wikimedia.