Zaha Hadid and ADPI Unveil Plans for World’s Largest Passenger Terminal in Beijing

chris08876 · #1 Posted **Feb 6, 2015, 5:42 PM**

Zaha Hadid and ADPI Unveil Plans for World’s Largest Passenger Terminal in Beijing

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ADP Ingeniérie (ADPI) and Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) have unveiled designs for what will be the world’s largest airport passenger terminal – the Beijing New Airport Terminal Building. The Daxing scheme, based off the bid-winning planning concept by ADPI, hopes to alleviate traffic from Beijing’s existing Capital Airport, which is operating beyond its planned capacity.

“Initially accommodating 45 million passengers per year, the new terminal will be adaptable and sustainable, operating in many different configurations dependent on varying aircraft and passenger traffic throughout each day,” stated ZHA in a press release. “With an integrated multi-modal transport centre featuring direct links to local and national rail services including the Gaotie high speed rail, the new Daxing airport will be a key hub within Beijing’s growing transport network and a catalyst for the region’s economic development, including the city of Tianjin and Hebei Province.”

Under the leadership of the Beijing New Airport Headquarters (BNAH) and the Local Design Institute, the joint design team consists of ADPI and ZHA, along with competition consortium group members Buro Happold, Mott MacDonald and EC Harris.

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http://www.dezeen.com/2015/02/05/zah...beijing-china/

N830MH · #2 Posted **Feb 7, 2015, 6:14 AM**

Which airlines who will be at new airports? How about Skyteam Alliance or something like that?

Minato Ku · #3 Posted **Feb 7, 2015, 9:24 AM**

Note that ADPI= Aéroports de Paris Ingénierie.

Kngkyle · #4 Posted **Feb 7, 2015, 4:35 PM**

Really cool design, but it doesn't look like there are that many gates.. far fewer than the big US airports have at least.

montréaliste · #5 Posted **Feb 7, 2015, 5:55 PM**

She is good, that Zaha Hadid. I like her stuff better than Frank Gehry's by a long mile. It is less idyosyncratic and speaks more to the architectural than the purely sculptural aspects of big architecture. Her designs are well suited to this kind of exercise much like Calatrava's.