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Beijing International Airport Terminal 3, China
With Beijing hosting the Olympics in 2008, the volume of passengers passing through the capital city’s airport is expected to rise from 27 million to 66 million per year by 2015. The new runway therefore required an accompanying terminal to cope with the growing volume of people and planes. The iconic Terminal 3 of Beijing’s Capital International Airport is the result. At the airport itself, Terminal 3 will be almost part of its own city, complete with restaurants, shops and even courtyards and pools. It is the largest covered structure ever planned. There are 40,000 workers on site, working eight-hour shifts around the clock. The roof of the dragon-like structure covers a space 2 miles long by half a mile wide, with 175 escalators, 173 lifts and 437 travelators. "To get an idea of the scale," says British architect Lord Foster, "imagine Heathrow terminals 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 together under one roof and then add an extra 17% of floor space. It's so big that in certain lights you can't see one end of the building from the other." The terminal 3 project is the fastest-built, single largest airport expansion project the world has ever seen. Designers are under immense pressure to make the terminal building fit in with the sophisticated airport, and Beijing as a whole. But alongside this, the constructors face a very 21st century problem and one that has only recently entered Chinese consciousness – sustainability and its role as an ideal of the Beijing Green Olympics. |
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