Travellers arriving at Changi Airport's Terminal 3 will be greeted by one of the largest and longest permanent public art projects in the world.
A sandstone wall sculpture is located at the arrival hall of the terminal, which has a capacity for 22 million passengers a year. Terminal 3's operations will begin on Wednesday 9th of January 2008.
Commissioned by the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) and entitled Rhythms of Nature, the sculpture by leading English sculptor and designer Richard North-Lewis comprises more than 5,000 individually-cut stone blocks.
Of these, nearly 1,000 blocks are hand-carved with images depicting nature's flora and fauna. The sculpture was built in Java with sandstone quarried locally and then transported piece by piece to Singapore and reassembled at Terminal 3.
The sculpture surrounds the walls of the arrival hall and also frames a five-storey vertical garden dubbed the 'Green Wall' at the baggage reclaim hall.
