Experts reveal that this new airport will eventually be the world’s largest one yet!
| Mar 9, 2018, 10:50 IST
One thing before we get to the details. You wouldn't want yourself to be having a flight delay in this place! While the world has some really massive and stunning airports, experts believe that this new one in Beijing will top them all! Beijing is about to give all the countries a run for their money with this news airport of theirs. Welcome to Beijing New Airport!
With four runways and a two-million-square-foot terminal, the city’s second major airport will serve 45 million passengers annually once it opens. And thanks to two more additions in the works, that number could eventually reach 100 million passengers a year, as stated by a leading news agency. Travellers, its a space like nothing you have seen before. Walkways connect to one central hub, which separates passengers for international and domestic flights. The space will also host an array of exotic garden spaces, practically guaranteed to make you forget you’re surrounded by concrete and several tons of metal planes.
The late architect Zaha Hadid designed the Beijing New Airport Terminal Building with two specific purposes in mind: to create a more compact building and reduce travel times. But she also wanted to pay tribute to the airport’s native country. “The overall symmetry of the airport terminal design, together with its flowing, interconnected forms, create a fluid composition which evokes the harmony and balance evidence in Chinese landscapes, while its colours and materials are an expression of visual language within traditional Chinese culture,” Zaha Hadid Architecture’s website read. And that’s not all! The design is also eco-friendly; it’s predicted to create a 50 percent reduction in overall energy consumption and CO2 emissions, according to the airport’s engineering consultant BuroHappold Engineering.
Unfortunately, you will have to wait until 2019 to check out this beauty!
With four runways and a two-million-square-foot terminal, the city’s second major airport will serve 45 million passengers annually once it opens. And thanks to two more additions in the works, that number could eventually reach 100 million passengers a year, as stated by a leading news agency. Travellers, its a space like nothing you have seen before. Walkways connect to one central hub, which separates passengers for international and domestic flights. The space will also host an array of exotic garden spaces, practically guaranteed to make you forget you’re surrounded by concrete and several tons of metal planes.
The late architect Zaha Hadid designed the Beijing New Airport Terminal Building with two specific purposes in mind: to create a more compact building and reduce travel times. But she also wanted to pay tribute to the airport’s native country. “The overall symmetry of the airport terminal design, together with its flowing, interconnected forms, create a fluid composition which evokes the harmony and balance evidence in Chinese landscapes, while its colours and materials are an expression of visual language within traditional Chinese culture,” Zaha Hadid Architecture’s website read. And that’s not all! The design is also eco-friendly; it’s predicted to create a 50 percent reduction in overall energy consumption and CO2 emissions, according to the airport’s engineering consultant BuroHappold Engineering.
Unfortunately, you will have to wait until 2019 to check out this beauty!