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Airport Architecture : Air Terminal Buildings

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Airport Terminal Architecture

Key Aeronautical Developments around the world.

Major Contemporary Air Terminal Buildings / Projects, alphabetical:

Hanimaadhoo Airport, The Maldives
Design: Haptic Architects / Aviaplan
Hanimaadhoo Airport Maldives - Airport Architecture
image from architect

Heathrow Terminal 5, London, UK
Design: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners with YRM
Heathrow Terminal 5 Building
picture from Concept

Kolkata Airport, India
Design: RMJM Architects
Kolkata Airport Building
picture from architect

Mestia Airport Building, Georgia
Design: J. MAYER H. Architects
Georgia Airport Building
image from architect

Queen Alia International Airport, Amman, Jordan
Design: Foster + Partners
Queen Alia International Jordan
picture © Foster + Partners

Oslo Airport Building Terminal, Norway
Design: Narud Stokke Wiig
Oslo Airport Architecture
picture : NSW

St Petersburg Airport – architecture contest, Russia
Design: Grimshaws
St Petersburg Airport architecture
picture from architect

San Francisco International Airport, Northern California, USA
Design: Gensler Architects
San Francisco International
photo Courtesy of Gensler, Architects

Shenzhen Airport Building, China
Design: Massimiliano Fuksas Architects
Shenzhen Bao'an building
image courtesy Studio Fuksas

Stansted Airport, Essex, England, UK
Design: Foster + Partners
Stansted Airport Building
photo : Adrian Welch

Airside C Tampa International Airport, Florida, USA
Design: Alfonso Architects
Tampa International Airport Airside C Florida
photo : Al Hurley

Warsaw Airport building, Poland
Design: Estudio Lamela Arquitectos
Warsaw Airport Building
photo © Estudio Lamela

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Air Terminal Buildings

Airport Building Projects – no images, alphabetical:

Astana International Airport, Kazakhstan
Date built: 2003
Kisho Kurokawa

Ataturk Airport – International Terminal, Istanbul, Turkey
Date built: 2004
GMW Architects

Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport, Germany

Gerkan, Marg & Partners

Chicago O’Hare International Airport – Part Redevelopment, Illinois, USA
Date built: 2004
Murphy/Jahn Architects

Dulles International Airport, Virginia, USA
Date built: 1962
Eero Saarinen, Architect

jetblue – Terminal 5, TWA Building, New York City, NY, USA
Date built: 2008
Gensler

Kansai Airport Terminal, Osaka, Japan
1994
Renzo Piano Architects

Kuala Lumpur International Airport, KL, Malaysia
1998
Kisho Kurokawa

Lester B. Pearson International Airport, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Moshe Safdie Architects

Manilla Airport – air terminal, Philippines
1999
Paul Andreu Architects

Raffaelo Sanzio Airport, Ancona, Italy

Gerkan, Marg & Partners

Royal Jordanian Airlines Headquarters, Amman, Jordan

Niels Torp Arkitekter

San Pablo Airport, Sevilla, Spain
1991
Rafael Moneo Architects

Stuttgart Airport – Terminal 3, Germany

Gerkan, Marg & Partners

Terminal 1A – temporary airport terminal, Vienna, Austria

Itten+Brechbühl, Baumschalger Eberle, P.ARC

Toronto Lester Pearson International Airport expansion, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2007-10
Moshe Safdie and Associates Inc with SOM + Adamson Architects

TWA Terminal, New York, USA
1962
Eero Saarinen, Architect

Vienna Airport control tower, Vienna, Austria

Zechner & Zechner Architects

Zurich Airport, Switzerland
2006
Design: Grimshaw

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