tag: airports
Flight of fancy
posted 08.11 in news.
Australia’s ABC TV will be showing a four-part series on airports, starting on Sunday 14th August at 4.30pm. Episode 1: Kansai Airport ( Renzo Piano Building Workshop ) Episode 2: Denver Airport ( Perez then ( Fentress ) Episode 3: Shanghai...
BNE - airport competition
posted 05.11 in resources.
Brisbane Airport Corporation working in association with City Lab is pleased to announce BNE: Making Connections: an architecture and urban design competition for Brisbane Airport that is open to all registered Australian architects. If you are...
Charles de Gaullle Terminal 2E
posted 08.10 in resources.
Terminal 2E was designed by Paul Andreu with an elliptical skeleton, and inaugurated in 2003. This terminal partially collapsed in 2004, killing four people.
airport design
posted 07.09 in news.
Here’s a “History of the airport” slideshow by Witold Rybczynski. Things are not looking up. Airports have become as ubiquitous—and about as glamorous—as bus stations. Perhaps that’s really the new model. In the...
Melbourne Airport Tower
posted 03.09 in news.
Some important buildings sorely lack architectural input. The new 70 metre tall Melbourne Airport control tower by Air Services might be one of them. This is the “Indicative Concept Design” being presented to contractors interested in...
Terminal Development
posted 01.09 in news.
Christchurch International Airport is to be rebuilt big, to accommodate all the extra flights we seem to need to take these days, and all the extra shops we need to walk past. Sadly Warren and Mahoney’s big new building buries Paul...
Tempelhof closes
posted 11.08 in news.
Berlin’s Tempelhof airport, designed by Nazi-era architect Ernst Sagebiel, has just closed to flights. The 1.4km long multi-storey building was, according to the Rescue Tempelhof group, the largest on earth when built in the ’30s, and is...
Wellington airport
posted 02.08 in news.
Studio of Pacific Architecture and Warren and Mahoney have designed the new extensions to Wellington’s boxy old airport. Architect elder, Russell Walden, isn’t pleased with the new look, variously described as rock-like, pumpkin-like,...
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