Singapore Changi airport has been voted the best airport in the world for seven consecutive years by certified aviation rankings body Skytrax. But now there is a new attraction for Changi’s 65 million annual passengers to savour: the world’s tallest indoor waterfall.

The 40m-tall waterfall cascades through a seven-storey atrium from an opening in the roof of the Jewel, a new £1bn retail, leisure and entertainment complex designed by US- and Asia-based Safdie Architects, with Buro Happold as engineer. Built on a former car park on the landside half of the airport, the 135,700m² destination is linked to three of the airport’s passenger terminals and contains shops, restaurants, a hotel and covered gardens within an internal, terraced forest setting.

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