Foster + Partners, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and UNStudio are battling to win the tender for a new £1 billion terminal at Taiwan’s greatest airport, Taoyuan Global.
The architecture companies are amongst the three teams shortlisted to design and style the 640,000-square-metre Terminal 3 creating at Taoyuan Global Airport, set to accommodate an additional 45 million passengers each 12 months.
Norman Foster’s London firm is working independently, although Richard Rogers’ workplace has teamed up with local company Fei & Cheng Associates and engineer Arup, and Ben van Berkel’s Amsterdam studio is partnering with nearby studio Bio-Architecture Formosana and US-based mostly April Yang Design Studio.
Related story: Foster teams up with Fernando Romero on new Mexico City airport
Due for completion in 2020, the new complex will be situated between the airport’s Terminal 2 and the China Airlines Headquarters, and will share some services with the current terminal.
The venture will encompass new concourses and a series of multi-practical buildings, as properly as infrastructure such as taxiways, service routes, accessibility roads, and other transit systems.
The present Terminal 1 constructing
Taoyuan Worldwide Airport, formerly known as Chiang Kai-shek Global, is positioned forty kilometres west of the Taiwanese capital, Taipei. In 2014 it was the 11th busiest passenger airport in the planet.
All 3 architecture firms concerned have airport expertise. Rogers Stirk Harbour was accountable for Terminal 4 at Madrid Barajas Airport and Terminal 5 at London’s Heathrow, even though Foster + Partners developed Beijing Capital Airport and London’s Stansted. UNStudio recently completed Kutaisi International Airport in Georgia.
Relevant story: Zaha Hadid unveils designs for “world’s biggest airport passenger terminal” in Beijing
The three teams will all receive £126,000 to participate in the 2nd phase of the competition, and are anticipated to submit types by 26 October.
The winner will be selected by a jury including Bartlett College of Architecture director Marcos Cruz, 2011-12 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-city Biennale curator Kwang-Yu King, and Michael Speaks, dean of Syracuse University’s school of architecture and the University of Kentucky’s school of style.
