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Heathrow Airport drops new Terminal 6 building from its expansion plans. Supporting Lead Architect, Grimshaw Architects, Benoy’s commercial masterplanning scope will be site-wide and consider enhancement opportunities across each of the terminal areas.
Design: CAZA Architects
The airport building contains a series of interior gardens that connect to a system of bio-swales which help reduce the overall site temperature and mitigate flooding risk.
One Works + SAVE Engineering complete complex architectural and structural challenge of bringing the airport up to 21st century standards. The building extension is defined by a new 280-metre-long plaza featuring a dramatic gridshell roof that allows sunlight to filter down to the passengers below.
Architects: Snøhetta. Hunter Bar is conceived as a hunting lodge where guests can seek shelter and relax leaning back onto the wall of the centrally placed cabin.
Architects: Snøhetta. Designed and produced by Norwegian glassworks Hadeland Glassverk, the traditional jar is known for its distinctive red rubber gasket and grey aluminum lid, elements which are reprised in the design of the bar through its simple color and material palette.
Design: Nordic-Office of Architecture. Norway’s main airport opened within budget and on time. The increased capacity is at approx. 32 million passengers annually. The airport building has almost doubled in size,
Design: Fentress Architects – major building elements are aligned as a campus connected by The Boulevard, a passenger walkway central to the terminal surrounded by gardens, fountains, art and a beautiful architectural skylight.
Design: Foster + Partners, Architects. Construction if the new Y-shaped terminal building will now be completed in four years, down from the initial estimate of six years.
With a total investment of around DKK 20 billion, the expansion of Copenhagen Airport to handle 40 million passengers a year will be one of the largest privately financed construction projects in Danish history.
Design: Andersen & Sigurdsson Arkitekter; Teikn Architects
The layout is simple and rational allowing for a great degree of flexibility. Extensive glass facades allow travellers to engage in the activities on apron plus spectacular views to the vast landscape and mountains.
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Aedas wins two international architecture competitions to design Shenzhen Airport Satellite Concourse and Hong Kong International Airport Third Runway Passenger Building.
Design: NBJ Architectes. The restructuration and expansion of the helicopter base for civil security in Nimes Garons is a relatively complex project, under two major constraints.
The building design by Tabanlioglu Architects consists of two main structures, namely, the “air side”, a transparent glass and steel linear scaffold to which the planes connect and the terminal building at the “land side”.
Design: Autoban Studio architects. The terminal building’s contemporary interiors overturn airport conventions of cavernous space and impersonal experience: cocoons exist at the convergence of architecture and art, creating an inviting, intriguing landscape.
Design: Aecom with Pininfarina. Groundbreaking for winner of the 2016 International Architecture Award, a 90-m-tall tulip-shaped tower at what will be the world’s largest airport ‘built from scratch’.
Dublin T2 Airport, Ireland building design by Pascall + Watson Architects with Arup and Mace – €395million T2 to handle 15 million passengers per year
Tempelhof Airport Tower Design Competition. Architecture contest for a £4.3m overhaul of Tempelhof Airport’s former air traffic control tower. The former airport closed in 2008 and became a 400-hectare public park, and has been used as an emergency refugee camp since September last year.
