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At the beginning of the 21st century, Cluj’s new control tower design by Kubota & Bachmann Architects is the beacon and a symbol for Cluj’s architecture. This building is functional, alluring and green.
Grimshaw’s new terminal at Pulkovo International Airport is now officially open to the public. Grimshaw has worked in a team with Ramboll and Pascall + Watson to design the airport, based in St Petersburg, Russia
Design: Luis Vidal + Architects (LVA). The £2.5 billion Heathrow’s new Terminal 2 development is the first in the UK by Luis Vidal + Architects. The Queen’s Terminal is to serve 20 million passengers a year. This building has taken five years to complete and includes the main Terminal 2 building, a monumental new sculpture by artist Richard Wilson RA, a 1,340-space car park, an energy centre and a cooling station.
Design: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. The recent inauguration of Mumbai airport’s new state-of-the-art T2 terminal reveals an impressive engineering and architectural achievement. The newly opened Terminal 2 building at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, is designed by the New York office of architectural firm SOM and built by India-based conglomerate GVK Power & Infrastructure Ltd.
Foster + Partners architects have produced a majestic, elegant building for Jordan. The have taken the repetitive pattern and top-lit concept of their earlier Stansted Airport building and improved it with a wonderful treatment of concrete. The building is a heavyweight, concrete flowing but controlled – articulated by well-placed joints. It seems like a return to the serious concrete structures of the past.
Nanjing Zendai Thumb Plaza, China. Exhibit at BI-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture 2013 in Shenzhen, China – design by MAD. Ma Yansong presents its work, ‘ Shanshui Experiment Complex’ in the Border Warehouse of BI-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture 2013 in Shenzhen. This is an artwork in-between architecture model and landscape installation, created based on MAD’s latest project, ‘Nanjing Zendai Thumb Plaza’.
Air Traffic Control Center (ATCC) Slovenia, Airport Ljubljana building design by SADAR + VUGA. It appears as a monolithic shell, opening towards outside only when necessary. The building is wrapped in belts of glazing and combined aluminium parapets and brise-soleils.
London Heathrow Airport Redevelopment
Heathrow: worth more dead than alive
London – Today London Britannia Airport’s promoters, TESTRAD (Thames Estuary Research and Development Company), have released new concept images and surface access plans outlining the key economic and regenerative benefits that could be realized from a £45bn development value, should an Estuarine Airport be one of the proposed schemes selected for further consideration by Sir Howard Davies Aviation commission recommendations next week.
Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport Building architect: Massimiliano Fuksas ; engineers: Knippers Helbig. On 28th November 2013 the new Terminal 3 at Shenzhen International Airport will open after just five years of planning and construction.
In recent years Georgia has undergone considerable development and as a result has moved its Parliament from the capital Tbilisi to the city of Kutaisi, a city which is also home to a large university and student population.
Appointed by Changi Airport Group (CAG), Singapore’s award-winning SAA Architects, the lead consultant and executive architect of the Architect & Design Consortium (Consortium), collaborated with UK-founded design firm Benoy Limited on the concept and interior design of the new terminal.
The Paris area airport – Charles de Gaulle – has become the first airport hub in continental Europe because of its advanced technology, its flux of freight and travelers, and its inestimable potential for growth.
The new Terminal (T3) at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport is designed with many unique landscape features. Odyssey was awarded the Hardscape and Water Features work for this iconic project.
The small but impressive Regional Terminal at Christchurch Airport, a joint development between Air New Zealand and Christchurch International Airport received two awards at the 2013 Canterbury Architecture Awards.