Another icon looks set to be erected and added to the array on this island. The architect? None other than the man responsible for the last but-one at the Marina: Mr. Moshe Safdie. Fresh from the triumph of the spear swimming pool atop the three joss sticks of the Marina Bay Sands Casino and Consolidated Resorts, a glass and steel tower at Changi Airport ought to be ready by 2018. Project Jewel; so many thousand square metres of retail floor space (70% of the 134,000 gross). Leisure attractions and activities for young and old, including an indoor garden with 40 metre waterfall. (Mr. Safdie was on the panel that awarded Global First Class Honours to the last indoor garden complex here, the iconic Gardens By the Bay, sited adjacent his MBS.)
Changi Airport Group (CAG) is battling
for “passengers’ mindshare” in a tough regional market, the Chief Executive Lee Seow Hiang announced in this morning’s newspaper. (Unsubstantiated
relation to the First family here.)
With the Straits Times and local conditions in this strange experimental
polis these pieces write themselves. (It wouldn’t matter were it not for the example
and knock-on effect in a booming, rapidly modernizing region.)
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