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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon MSP visited Aberdeen International Airport on Monday to unveil details of what will be the single largest investment in the airport since the current terminal opened its doors in 1977.
Architects: Skimore, Owings & Merrill LLP – SOM. Inspired by the form of traditional Indian pavilions, the four-story terminal stacks a grand “headhouse,” or central processing podium, on top of highly adaptable and modular concourses below.
Architects RMJM Istanbul has been shortlisted in a global competition to design the iconic 95m high Airport Traffic Control (ATC) Tower of Istanbul New Airport, due to open in 2018.
Norman Foster says infrastructure is about thinking holistically, investing to anticipate the issues of future generations. “The whole climate change issue, which many would argue is about the survival of the species, comes down to urbanism.”
Design: schmidt hammer lassen architects: official opening of the expansion of Pier C in Copenhagen Airport, becoming key for the airport’s growth strategy for non-European and long-haul traffic, making room for the world’s largest passenger airliner – the Airbus A380
Kurumoch International Airport Samara: the architecture and design of the new terminal reflect the space-related status of the city where space launch vehicles are constructed.
BNE Service Centre building in Queensland, Australia, design by ThomsonAdsett Architects – BAC airport building, QLD architecture design images
Beijing New Airport Terminal building in China design by ADP Ingeniérie and Zaha Hadid Architects – Chinese architecture development images
Geneva airport ‘aile_EST’, or East Wing, a 520 metre-long Non-Schengen facility designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, has received planning permission from The Federal Authorities in Switzerland.
Global design and consulting firm Woods Bagot has designed the new Los Angeles Business Lounge for international airlines Qantas, Cathay Pacific and British Airways at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
Design: Foster + Partners. The architects submit a detailed response to the Airports Commission’s call for evidence, addressing surface access, costs, delivery + analysis of the environmental, economic and social impacts of a new airport on the Isle of Grain in the Thames Estuary.
Design: Richard Wilson
Her Majesty The Queen set to officially open the new Terminal 2 on 23 June 2014
Heathrow today unveiled Slipstream, by renowned British artist Richard Wilson, which is set to become one of Britain’s most viewed public sculptures, seen by 20 million passengers a year.
Zurich airport building complex offering a vast utilization mix of corporate embassies, hotels, offices, medical clinics, schools and gastronomy covering more than 180.000 sqm. Holzer Kobler Architekturen with lead design architect Riken Yamamoto from Japan, are involved as design architects.
The new Hanimaadhoo International Airport is located on an island with very limited land mass for an international airport of this size. With airfield infrastructure consuming nearly all the available land the concept of a “floating terminal” has been selected by the Government for its innovative, exciting and eco-friendly approach. The proposed building is built entirely on stilts over water without reclamation to preserve the existing environment and the natural coastline.