Tag Airports

03-10-2022

Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2022: Here are the winners

The six winning projects of the 2022 edition of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, one of the most prestigious architectural awards, were announced on 22 September in Geneva. This accolade rewards both the designers as well as the clients and communities for whom the work was created; the six winners will share a million-dollar prize.

20-06-2022

EVOQ + ARTCAD for the Chibougamau-Chapais Airport in Canada

The Canadian EVOQ + ARTCAD studios have jointly created the expansion of the Chibougamau-Chapais Airport, the gateway to the Eeyou Istchee James Bay region in Québec, Canada. Emphasising its proximity to the Boreal Forest, the terminal's design showcases locally produced wood.

08-06-2022

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Aerial Walkway for Seattle-Tacoma Airport

International passengers arriving at Seattle-Tacoma Airport in the United States will be greeted by a scenic and impressive overhead walkway designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM). A replacement for the previous structure built 50 years ago, the new walkway is certainly the most complex intervention at the airport in the last seventy years, and it offers a spectacular welcome to passengers arriving into the city.

03-01-2022

ALA Architects, expansion of Terminal 2 of Helsinki-Vantaa Airport

Finland’s gateway to the world has been renewed with completion of ALA Architects’ expansion of Terminal 2 at Helsinki-Vantaa Airport. The new airport terminal welcomes passengers with an impressive timber-clad ceiling expanding outside to form a massive curved canopy roof.

24-09-2021

Rethinking an infrastructure from an environmental point of view, CLB Architects

The American firm CLB Architects has designed the recovery and renovation project of an ancillary facility at Jackson Hole Airport in Wyoming. An intervention that embraces the material quality of the local territory, transforming a car rental facility with a service station into an architectural experience.

04-11-2020

Opening of BER, Berlin’s new airport by gmp

Berlin’s new Brandenburg Airport (BER) was built to the designs of renowned German architecture firm gmp. At the time coined “Europe’s most modern airport”, it opened on 31 October 2020 with a delay of almost ten years.

10-09-2020

Richard Rogers leaves Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners after 40 years of architecture

A few weeks after his 87th birthday, architect Richard Rogers retired from the board of directors of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, the practice he founded more than 40 years ago; within the next 2 years his name will be removed from the name of the studio. Thus ends the career of the famous architect who worked on projects such as the Centre Pompidou (with Renzo Piano and Gianfranco Franchini) in Paris, Lloyds of London, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and the Millennium Dome or O2, also in London, a large tensile structure on Greenwich peninsula.

22-10-2018

Farewell to Paul Andreu, the airport architect

Paul Andreu died in Paris at the age of 80 on October 11, 2018. The architect, engineer, writer and painter was known primarily for his airports, starting with Charles-de-Gaulle in Paris – Roissy, opened in 1974, and also including airports in Bordeaux, Nice, Abu Dhabi, Cairo, Dar es Salaam, Point-à-Pitre and many more all over the world.

14-09-2018

The roofing of Viñoly's Carrasco International Airport in Montevideo

Only a few kilometres away from Montevideo, the new Carrasco Airport designed by Rafael Viñoly consists of a large arch-shaped roof with central uprights