Foster + Partners design of Capital Airport in Beijing


66 million passengers forecasted to pass through next year, 1 800 miles of cables, 445 lifts, 7 000 car parks. This is a new airport in Beijing, that started with works on August 2004 and is expected to be finished by the end of this year. Ground floor, which lead by functional analises is symetrical, but the roof revolts against order and welcomes tourists, that are in a front of the biggest gate into olympic games Beijing 2008.
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Foster + Partners lost boatloads of cash and a lot of staff last year, yet they’re still trying to go ahead with this and Paris’s Hermitage Plaza (SceneAdvisor.com: http://tinyurl.com/d9gje4). Ridiculous.