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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.
Design: Grimshaw, Nordic Office of Architecture and Haptic Architects. Shortlisted for MIPIM “Best Futura Mega Project Award”: Terminal 1 of the Istanbul New Airport will be the world’s largest airport terminal under one roof.
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.