@@christopherd.winnan8701 what a stupid comment. The post was Singapore is a living engineering marvel- the country is a hub where superstar architect and expert engineering firm come from all over the world to make Singapore ( the country) a marvel for engineering. U shld go to school and learn English or learn to read.
Whilst The Jewel is located at Changi Airport, it is positioned entirely outside of the airport terminals. You cannot access The Jewel on foot unless you transit through immigration and enter Singapore OR use the T2-T4 terminal train which passes the waterfall inside The Jewel. Access to The Jewel is also FREE, but there is a ticket required to visit the sky garden and attractions on the top floor. I know this as I visited The Jewel on Saturday whilst travelling through Changi!
The internal waterfall. That's what impressed me the most out all the other impressive achievements. Never seen anything like that before, not even in nature. Thanks for posting this. What an Engineering marvel....
Because Singapore is so small, Jewel serves as a destination for non-passengers. For some, it's just a neighboring shopping mall, and they're only ten minutes' drive from the airport.
@@amazingstarzz You're giving us way too much credit lol. Don't think I've ever heard anyone butcher the name tbh...then again the yanks would somehow find a way to butcher it like 'Chan-Guy?' 😂
Really does look great in person. But ngl, it's a tad bit overrated imo, aside from the garden in the middle, rest of it is essentially a super busy shopping centre full of both travellers & locals, as it's not technically part of the airport. Not the best place to relax, as it's become a tourist hotspot in its own right. Unless you're passing by in a 20 second train connecting terminals, it's a place you need to plan out & visit like any other tourist spot. Not something you enjoy after you've cleared security, which seems to be a misconception. Love the concept & engineering, something more airports should deffo follow...on a smaller scale post security just for travelers ideally.
@@christopherd.winnan8701 I think it looks great as it is re the waterfall/structure. I just wish there was maybe a seperate high up airside lounge/floor with access to the garden from airside. Right now you've got to plan a trip to the garden before you enter the airport, or if in transit leave the airport/go through immigration to check it out...sounds like it's done by design to prop up tourism numbers even if only visiting for 1 hour. Which is weird in a world where you can book a hotel in the airport without leaving airside. It's a hassle right now, loads of people lugging luggage around the garden/stressing out over missing a flight etc.
Man... Singapore is such a beatiful place, and Changi is AMAZING I have never thought that an Airport could be this delightful and pleasing to the eye. Not for nothing has it won "Best Airport" in the world for like 10 years in a row before Doha took it in 2022 and 2024.
@@mhx47 They hosted the world cup in 2022, so in the build up to that I imagine there was an expansion/refurb. They've even got their own 'indoor tropical garden' which was nice, as it's actually in the airport itself
Been in 2019 and again recently in early November. It's seriously super impressive! If you have an extended layover, it's nice to sit there and just watch the waterfall. A meditative experience.
Jewel works as a destination for non-passengers because Singapore is so small some people just staying 10 mins drive away from the airport so it's just a nearby shopping mall for them
I appreciate you raising awareness around mental health in construction. I'm not an engineer by trade nor in construction at all, but I do work in another high pressure field. It's always nice to see more emphasis placed on the psychological wellbeing of those in various industries. Keep it up B1M!
technically, the waterfall is just part of shopping mall NEXT to the airport. you'll need to exit the customs to enter, and most people who go there aren't actually flying
actually @TheB1M the Sri Lanka building was actually built in Singapore first by Safdie.... its Called Sky Habitat... it has 2 cantilever Swimming pools in the sky on bridges
"It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression 'as pretty as an airport'." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Douglas Adams
Our airport here in Zürich/Switzerland is bloody ugly - it has the charme of a cheap commercial center of the 70s. PS: Of course Zürich airport is not worse than the majority of airports on this planet - of which I've seen maybe 60 or so - but considering that Switzerland is one of the richest countries on this planet you might think that they should come up with something more appealing. :-)
That really is impressive: putting the emphasis on the need for a human centred and natural environment. I loath airports and part of the reason is their artificial inhuman environment. But I could enjoy being their.
It's already hot and humid, so you build a glass solar oven dome and pump water up to the top to create a waterfall. Good, now you have 100% humidity on top of the already high temperatures. So now you have to build extra air-conditioning to cool and dehumidify the air you've just heated and humidified as well as pumping chilled water through the floor. It doesn't seem very energy efficient. What's its carbon footprint? How was this ever approved in an age of global warming? Please ignore. I'm just having a little eco-PC fun. It is an incredibly beautiful design. My hat's off to the architects.
Airports are usually planned away from population centers because people didn't want to live close to do much noise. Bringing people back into the airport seems like a really stupid idea, even if it's done in a cool way. Ideally airports are a way to get to destinations, they aren't destinations themselves.
did a rough estimate on the energy for the waterfall, I'm guessing it's about 300-400kW to pump the water up and around, by the time efficiency is accounted for. Yikes!
37,000 liters? That right there is why the imperial system exists. The nonsensically large numbers using small measurements is super common in metric-using countries. Imperial defines that as something much simpler - *almost 1,000 gallons.* 😂
Question to everybody who was in this beautiful terminal. When there are a lot of trees, plants and bushes. How is the climate here? Isnt there a lot of humidity and warm air? What about insects and all kind of flies? BTW the visualization at 11:15 is funny. Like 50 Singaproe airlines Airbus A380 here :D (they have 12).
The United States should build an airport just like this one, but even more grand. Perhaps remodel the John F Kennedy Airport in New York City to resemble something like this.
Because 'Murica wants to have the biggest and best of everything. But basic infrastructure is crumbing in the U.S., so once they have fixed their roads, replaced their bridges and built a passenger rail system, they might be able to spend some money on glamour projects like this.
There’s no reason for Cities across America to waste their money on projects like these. Americas airports were built primarily to function rather than look over the top with glamor.
An example of engineering expertise unhooked from common sense. Waiting for my flight, I walked through because it was there, but I wouldn’t bother to go back. The humidity level inside is close to 100%, suffocating at any temperature for anything longer than a few minutes. For now, it is an attraction for Singaporeans and a minor time-killer for travelers, but that humidity will soon grow assorted molds and corrode mechanical and electrical systems.
Honestly, yes singapore has impressive engineering. But when i visited to other countries, i was even more blown away by their engineering - especially big countries with varying land profiles.
They? Who? 😂 Moshe safdie? How can this be called a copied😂? From a proposed but not built or implemented or even executed from design/concept stage. A engineering feat completed in a city state with no natural resources.
I live in Singapore, and despite it's spectacle in the centre. Jewel is one of the worst malls in Singapore. It's incredibly badly laid out, poorly sign-posted, no consistent theming for each floor (IE: Floor 1 is designer fashion, floor 2 is high street fashion). It's just a random jumble of shops that, that take forever to get from A to B because you HAVE to walk all the way around the mall to get to the other side.
It’s pretty much a blend of benevolent dictatorship and social compact. Even the Opposition parties here cannot guarantee a different style of governance because of how efficient the public service has been.
be nice if the local population lived in similar style. Alas all shoved into 40 floor filing cabinets like files. Who wants to have kids in a near jail size dwelling??
I went there yesterday, this place have a lot of cracks, I'm not up for hype train on this airport. We should be more critical and point out it's errors
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Singapore is a living engineering marvel.
Do you really think Singaporeans get their hands dirty building any of these places?
@@christopherd.winnan8701 what a stupid comment. The post was Singapore is a living engineering marvel- the country is a hub where superstar architect and expert engineering firm come from all over the world to make Singapore ( the country) a marvel for engineering. U shld go to school and learn English or learn to read.
@@christopherd.winnan8701 True, i have genuinely only seen indians working on the construction sites in singapore while i was there
Yea we hire foreign talent to help us
Laugh out loud monoculture with extreme law and order😂
Whilst The Jewel is located at Changi Airport, it is positioned entirely outside of the airport terminals. You cannot access The Jewel on foot unless you transit through immigration and enter Singapore OR use the T2-T4 terminal train which passes the waterfall inside The Jewel.
Access to The Jewel is also FREE, but there is a ticket required to visit the sky garden and attractions on the top floor.
I know this as I visited The Jewel on Saturday whilst travelling through Changi!
It's the T3-T2 Skytrain that crosses through the Jewel btw, T4 stands alone away from the other 3 terminals
oh.. that stinks..
Yet another video of my home country, Singapore! Thanks for featuring us 😄
You’re welcome! Thanks for the great airport 🙌
The internal waterfall. That's what impressed me the most out all the other impressive achievements. Never seen anything like that before, not even in nature. Thanks for posting this. What an Engineering marvel....
We beat it for the nicest airport. Suck it Changi.
the harder part is the indoor gardens, such awesomeness and superior way to avoid the look of a 'concrete jungle'
Because Singapore is so small, Jewel serves as a destination for non-passengers. For some, it's just a neighboring shopping mall, and they're only ten minutes' drive from the airport.
Thank you for pronouncing Changi properly. Its not that difficult to look up how others say it but many don't and end up butchering it
Yeah the way they pronounced the “-ngi” was spot on considering they’re not local.
That's literally how most of Europeans would pronounce it anyway
@@amazingstarzz You're giving us way too much credit lol. Don't think I've ever heard anyone butcher the name tbh...then again the yanks would somehow find a way to butcher it like 'Chan-Guy?' 😂
@@BBingo-v5ino we know how ignorant u ppl are
Welcome to globalization. Butchering is normal there.
Absolutely gorgeous! It’s a brilliant welcome to Singapore! The whole airport is packed with some amazing places to dine and relax.
I just went to singapore for the first time last month. It lives up to the hype, gave me such a crazy vivid vision of the future.
Visited for the first time this year. I've never been happier to spend 8+ hours in an airport. They've done an excellent job with the whole thing.
Really does look great in person. But ngl, it's a tad bit overrated imo, aside from the garden in the middle, rest of it is essentially a super busy shopping centre full of both travellers & locals, as it's not technically part of the airport. Not the best place to relax, as it's become a tourist hotspot in its own right. Unless you're passing by in a 20 second train connecting terminals, it's a place you need to plan out & visit like any other tourist spot. Not something you enjoy after you've cleared security, which seems to be a misconception. Love the concept & engineering, something more airports should deffo follow...on a smaller scale post security just for travelers ideally.
Not even a vortex. Schauberger would have been extremely disappointed, and so was I!
@@christopherd.winnan8701 I think it looks great as it is re the waterfall/structure. I just wish there was maybe a seperate high up airside lounge/floor with access to the garden from airside. Right now you've got to plan a trip to the garden before you enter the airport, or if in transit leave the airport/go through immigration to check it out...sounds like it's done by design to prop up tourism numbers even if only visiting for 1 hour. Which is weird in a world where you can book a hotel in the airport without leaving airside. It's a hassle right now, loads of people lugging luggage around the garden/stressing out over missing a flight etc.
No one ever said it was a place to relax lmao its already said that it was a mall and garden combined since the very start
Man... Singapore is such a beatiful place, and Changi is AMAZING I have never thought that an Airport could be this delightful and pleasing to the eye. Not for nothing has it won "Best Airport" in the world for like 10 years in a row before Doha took it in 2022 and 2024.
Pity that there is nowhere for transit passenger to have a safe and secure nap. I did not realise that most travellers would prefer a fake waterfall.
Doha was nice, but I do not remember it be extraordinaly back in 2015. Wonder what have changed. B1M, make a video!
@@mhx47 They hosted the world cup in 2022, so in the build up to that I imagine there was an expansion/refurb. They've even got their own 'indoor tropical garden' which was nice, as it's actually in the airport itself
We have a Safdie art museum in the town I live in. He probably drew it up on his lunch hour between the appetizer and main course.
Been in 2019 and again recently in early November. It's seriously super impressive! If you have an extended layover, it's nice to sit there and just watch the waterfall. A meditative experience.
Jewel works as a destination for non-passengers because Singapore is so small some people just staying 10 mins drive away from the airport so it's just a nearby shopping mall for them
I appreciate you raising awareness around mental health in construction. I'm not an engineer by trade nor in construction at all, but I do work in another high pressure field. It's always nice to see more emphasis placed on the psychological wellbeing of those in various industries. Keep it up B1M!
I kinda wish we could have this but as the original vision for a mall (where basically, you'd live there, shop there, and work there).
I lived in Singapore and was impressed by everything that was done.
I've been to Singapore and also visited the Jewel several times. It was stunning to see in real life.
1:45 I was fully expecting you to say "He believed he could make Singapore, Singarich" xD
technically, the waterfall is just part of shopping mall NEXT to the airport. you'll need to exit the customs to enter, and most people who go there aren't actually flying
Highly recommend visiting if you get the chance. Fantastic place
I am always impressed by this construction
Amazing idea from architect Moshe Safdie! And great graphics in the video B1M. Nice content
Yet another airport content! Never Changi(e), B1M 😉🛫♥️
Thank you, you guys always brighten my day!
actually @TheB1M the Sri Lanka building was actually built in Singapore first by Safdie.... its Called Sky Habitat... it has 2 cantilever Swimming pools in the sky on bridges
Great video, always nice to see my home country featured in a national channel.
Singapore is amazing and one of my favourite cities to visit for weekend or so, just too bad it's so expensive there so I can't stay for longer... :/
come to the heartlands, there's lots of cheap hawker food that's just as good if not better around :)
A gigantic humidifier! Just what is needed in dry, arid southeast Asia.
Best airport in the world. Singapore is also a great country in itself.
Stunning.
Amazing videos
As always, an interesting post.
Truly amazing!
Thumb up for beautiful Singapore ❤❤❤
I watched a couple youtube vlogs and was always caught off goard when they were at the airport, I will visit someday to see it for myself
apart from the humidity, Singapore is an awesome place
What an insane construction feat
Thanks!
Learned more about Odoo than Singapore Airport
Some Arup projects! ❤
"It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression 'as pretty as an airport'." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Douglas Adams
It's one of my favourite airports ever 🛫
I've seen this airport on instagram a lot and always wanted to visit it
Adorable 😍
Our airport here in Zürich/Switzerland is bloody ugly - it has the charme of a cheap commercial center of the 70s.
PS: Of course Zürich airport is not worse than the majority of airports on this planet - of which I've seen maybe 60 or so - but considering that Switzerland is one of the richest countries on this planet you might think that they should come up with something more appealing. :-)
Imagine the Jewel when it was just was just a huge open air parking lot. Who could have imagined such huge transformation?
That really is impressive: putting the emphasis on the need for a human centred and natural environment. I loath airports and part of the reason is their artificial inhuman environment. But I could enjoy being their.
Looks like a maintenance nightmare. 😂
It's already hot and humid, so you build a glass solar oven dome and pump water up to the top to create a waterfall. Good, now you have 100% humidity on top of the already high temperatures. So now you have to build extra air-conditioning to cool and dehumidify the air you've just heated and humidified as well as pumping chilled water through the floor. It doesn't seem very energy efficient. What's its carbon footprint? How was this ever approved in an age of global warming?
Please ignore. I'm just having a little eco-PC fun. It is an incredibly beautiful design. My hat's off to the architects.
Meanwhile in Nigeria...
I should have make the visit when I was in SE Asia, but it is just so incredibly hot there…
World class airport
Me, a Dutch person: reclaimed land, you say?
yes! about 20% of our country is reclaimed land :)
Good job pronouncing Changi correctly Mr. Mills
2:07 gravity not for me 😅😂
Greatest Asian Infrastructure
That's WAY better than the worlds tallest building. Any of them.
Airports are usually planned away from population centers because people didn't want to live close to do much noise.
Bringing people back into the airport seems like a really stupid idea, even if it's done in a cool way.
Ideally airports are a way to get to destinations, they aren't destinations themselves.
MEGA MEGA MEGA VIDEO
did a rough estimate on the energy for the waterfall, I'm guessing it's about 300-400kW to pump the water up and around, by the time efficiency is accounted for. Yikes!
Yes
37,000 liters? That right there is why the imperial system exists. The nonsensically large numbers using small measurements is super common in metric-using countries.
Imperial defines that as something much simpler - *almost 1,000 gallons.* 😂
Real Engineering collab?
Question to everybody who was in this beautiful terminal. When there are a lot of trees, plants and bushes. How is the climate here? Isnt there a lot of humidity and warm air? What about insects and all kind of flies? BTW the visualization at 11:15 is funny. Like 50 Singaproe airlines Airbus A380 here :D (they have 12).
Changi pronounced correctly but not LKY. Lol. That's funny. But expected.
i would like to see it
Singapore is the best country in the world.
I want to fly via Singapore just to visit this airport 😂
amazing
Free Israel. Singapore supports Israel. Ganyang Failstin, Ganyang Malaysia.
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@@woth-th9gi Free israel from who? Israel are the oppresses
The United States should build an airport just like this one, but even more grand. Perhaps remodel the John F Kennedy Airport in New York City to resemble something like this.
Because 'Murica wants to have the biggest and best of everything. But basic infrastructure is crumbing in the U.S., so once they have fixed their roads, replaced their bridges and built a passenger rail system, they might be able to spend some money on glamour projects like this.
@@Dave_Sisson cool slander
There’s no reason for Cities across America to waste their money on projects like these. Americas airports were built primarily to function rather than look over the top with glamor.
It's just a mall next to the airport so you don't have to build a new airport for this
I'd rather they stopped aiming aircraft at each other on the same runway first.
Singapores mega projects are green and beautiful looking always its like the opposite of solbiet convret brustalis
“Engineering miracle” seems like a oxymoron 😂
An example of engineering expertise unhooked from common sense.
Waiting for my flight, I walked through because it was there, but I wouldn’t bother to go back.
The humidity level inside is close to 100%, suffocating at any temperature for anything longer than a few minutes. For now, it is an attraction for Singaporeans and a minor time-killer for travelers, but that humidity will soon grow assorted molds and corrode mechanical and electrical systems.
Because there's no typhoons. The end.
Singapore mentioned RAAHHH 🗣️🗣️🗣️
Really big country 😂 B1M
Come on. Singapores limit is the sea, and they keep pushing it back. Much better wording after the reclaimed land bit
Honestly, yes singapore has impressive engineering. But when i visited to other countries, i was even more blown away by their engineering - especially big countries with varying land profiles.
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They copied the design/concept from a proposed airport expansion project in Qatar.
They? Who? 😂 Moshe safdie? How can this be called a copied😂? From a proposed but not built or implemented or even executed from design/concept stage. A engineering feat completed in a city state with no natural resources.
I live in Singapore, and despite it's spectacle in the centre. Jewel is one of the worst malls in Singapore. It's incredibly badly laid out, poorly sign-posted, no consistent theming for each floor (IE: Floor 1 is designer fashion, floor 2 is high street fashion). It's just a random jumble of shops that, that take forever to get from A to B because you HAVE to walk all the way around the mall to get to the other side.
That’s the point. It’s a traditional American mall design, aimed to maximise time in it so that some foot traffic time metric is satisfied.
Safdie did some amazing projects in his lifetime
Moshe Safdie is one of the world’s greatest architect.
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The sound on this video is off... Your voice is pearcing at high volumes.
What happens when you have money and smart people.
Is Singapore what could be described as a “Benevolent Dictatorship “?
pretty much yes, but it's continuously going in the direction of a pure democracy as the government trusts its better educated citizens more
It’s pretty much a blend of benevolent dictatorship and social compact. Even the Opposition parties here cannot guarantee a different style of governance because of how efficient the public service has been.
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If Schiphol Airport would look like this I wouldn't be as depressed if I had to take a plane, I hate our airport.
Schithol...
Don't jinx it mate
This is nothing compared to Winnipeg Airport.
They can do all this, but can't figure out how to feed and house people.
be nice if the local population lived in similar style. Alas all shoved into 40 floor filing cabinets like files. Who wants to have kids in a near jail size dwelling??
Why, do you want it to collapse??!?!??!
He doesn’t want it to collapse he’s just telling us how it’s built and why it’s a safe structure
[Relatively] homogeneous society + some of strictest laws in world + slave labor = beautiful country
the chinese diaspora is the best diaspora. singapore is a testament to that fact
I went there yesterday, this place have a lot of cracks, I'm not up for hype train on this airport. We should be more critical and point out it's errors
really?
So you're saying it wasn't what it was cracked up to be?
there*
@@WanderingExistence That pun really cracked me up