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Category: Architecture, Transportation Tags: Airport, Georgia, Iconic architecture, UNStudio
UNStudio‘s design for the new Transfer Terminal and Air Traffic Control Tower for Kutaisi Airport was officially presented yesterday by the President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili. Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, who personally demolished one of the walls of the old airport yesterday announced, We will build an international airport here, which will take aircraft from [...]
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Category: Architecture, Transportation Tags: Airport, COR-TEN, Foster + Partners, Landscape architecture, Mexico
Located in the desert-like landscape of New Mexico, Spaceport will be the first building of its kind in the world. Its design aims to articulate the thrill of space travel for the first space tourists while making a minimal impact on the environment. Viewed from space, the terminal evokes Virgin Galactic’s brand logo of the [...]
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Category: Architecture, Selected, Transportation Tags: Airport, b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos, Color architecture, Folding architecture, Spain
The programme of requirements includes a terminal building, a control tower, and two spaces for storages. Given their size, none of these elements were obvious candidates to represent a new airport. The strategy pursued therefore seeked to link the three programmes by means of a common visual element that avoids the impression that a strange [...]
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