Summary Assignment

Summary Assignment Comm 1007 College English Uma S/ George Brown College

 

Watch the Youtube video, “Inside Singapore Changi Airport’s New $1.3 Billion Lifestyle Hub”

Transcript of the video:

 

Singapore’s Changi Airport has already snagged the title of the world’s best airport for seven years

running and its newest expansion is only tightening its grip on the title. In April 2019, it opened up Jewel,

a lifestyle hub for the airport. The massive doughnut shaped building sits between the control tower and

Terminal one. It took more than four years and $1.25 billion dollars to build the glass and steel dome that

makes up Jewel – part luxury mall and part rainforest. Here’s a look inside the complex making lay-overs

more fun.

 

Built on what was once a parking lot, Jewel now covers 1.46 million square feet. It stands ten stories tall,

with five storeys below ground and five above. 280 shops and restaurants circle the perimeter of the glass

dome. There’s a multi-screen IMAX theater, a full-sized supermarket and a hotel.

 

In the middle of it all, is the rain vortex. A cascading funnel of water drops seven stories through the core

of the building at over 130 feet high. It’s the tallest indoor waterfall in the world. All the water is

harvested from rain and recirculated through the waterfall 24/7. At night, it keeps running and acts as a

canvas for a 360-degree light show projected on it.

 

Surrounding the rain vortex is a four-storey indoor forest. Singapore is known as a city in a garden and

the airport wanted to capture that theme at Jewel with the Shiseido Forest Valley. More than nine hundred

trees and 60,000 shrubs from around the world make up the tiered gardens and of course, there are

walking trails. They’re open 24/7. They run through the gardens, past waterfalls. The airport suggests

allowing a half hour for each trail but maybe, allow more time, based on these crowds.

 

Don’t feel like walking? The sky train weaves through the forests as well and just because it’s still an

airport, there are early check-in kiosks and counters but you don’t actually need an airplane ticket or to go

through airport security to visit Jewel Changi. It is designed it this way to encourage Singapore residents

to wander the forest trails as well. The airport expects to see fifty to sixty million visitors to Jewel this year

but Jewel’s construction isn’t finished.

 

On the building’s fifth level, Canopy Park is set to open in June 2019. The recreational area will have a

hundred and 64-foot long glass-bottom bridge that’ll hang 75 feet off the ground. Skynet is for bouncing

and walking and will be as high as 26 feet above Canopy Park. A Hedge Maze, Mirror Maze, Topiary Walk

and slides will top it all off, but with 65.6 million travelers passing through Changi each year and seven

best-in-the-world crowns, Jewel is well, just that – the Jewel on top of an already stacked airport.

 

If you’ve got an airplane ticket, you can get access to the four award-winning terminals. Past security,

there’s a rooftop pool. For $13 you can watch airplanes take off around you as you swim. There’s also a

24/7 free cinema, mind-bending art and lots of Gardens like the Butterfly, Sunflower, Cactus and Orchid

gardens. With all this, we’re thinking we might opt for a longer layover.

 

Reference

 

Business Insider. (2019, April 17). Inside Singapore Changi Airport’s New $1.3 Billion Lifestyle Hub.

YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6-tFi2mXf4