Chinese Airports 中国机场

[cp1]

I think xian had a very nice airport.

[raymond_tung88]

Originally Posted by cp1

I think xian had a very nice airport.

I think many airports in China basically are the same... just a different exterior. Also, what is with the Chinese letters of the city on every single airport?

[beijing2008]

Beijing

[cp1]

Will beijings airport be refitted/refurbished for the 2008 olympics?

[zergcerebrates]

Originally Posted by cp1

Will beijings airport be refitted/refurbished for the 2008 olympics?

They're building a new one.

Check this thread out its about the new Beijing Terminal

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=276618

[Gandhi]

Wow!! amazing airports!!

greetings from Colombia!!

[ardel dave]

Originally Posted by cp1

Will beijings airport be refitted/refurbished for the 2008 olympics?

i read it in the internet that there will be a new airport in beijing. i dont dont know where it will be constructed but i think it will be finish before 2008. the architect is Norman foster. check this site for more details www.fosterandpartners.com

[Skyland]

Wow - very nice airports. Beautiful architecture. Congratulations!

[ChinaboyUSA]

Kunming New International Airport is going to build on the north of the city,
Kunming Wujiaba International Airport is already the 7th biggest airport in China.

[chengdu's kid]

chengdu shuangliu International Airport is the 6th of mainland china

[superchan7]

Chongqing's airport could've been better designed. It looks like it has tons of geometric imperfections and glaring appearance shortcuts. Even if this were done on purpose by the architect, it does not give a very good impression.

My current favourites are Hangzhou Xiaoshan and Guangzhou Baiyun (very beautiful airport). Qingdao is not bad, but I don't like Pudong airport.

[zergcerebrates]

Originally Posted by ardel dave

i read it in the internet that there will be a new airport in beijing. i dont dont know where it will be constructed but i think it will be finish before 2008. the architect is Norman foster. check this site for more details www.fosterandpartners.com

They're already building it.

As I posted above its here:

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=276618

[cosmos]

I have been in Guangzhou in 2002, but i arrived/departed from the old airport. What an amazing airport is this new one!!!

Nothing to compare with the old one!!!

[Hidden Dragon]

Huanglong Airport, Jiuzhaigou, Sichuan Province

[Planner Shenzhen]

I agree with Raymond that many of the airports are basically the same, although I would go further and say that even the exteroirs are pretty similar. The same expanse of greenish glass, same curving roof, same supports. Shenzhen's new terminals especially look very similar to Shanghai's and Xian's (in the front). I know this is a cultural thing, but a little carpet here and there would be nice as would some good space planning.

[Kaiser]

nice airports

[Clashman]

I may well be the only person on this forum who's flown in and out of Tianjin Airport. While the runway is capable of handling 747 jets, the airport itself is actually tiny. I'm from Green Bay, Wisconsin, a tiny city of about 100,000, and their airport dwarf's Tianjin. That's going to have to change in the next few years, because even with the addition to capital airport in Beijing, the Chinese government will need to shift substantial amounts of air traffic to Tianjin.

So there are plans right now to create a new terminal and build an additional runway, using the existing terminal, (I believe) for cargo only, and shifting all passenger transport to the new one. They're hoping to have it completed late 2007, early 2008, in time for the Beijing Olympics, which is hosting several events in Tianjin. I've got some renderings of the new airport. These are, as far as I've been told, the final design which has been approved and is currently under construction.

Here's a pic of the current airport:


Here's a map of where the new terminal will be, (the old terminal should be near the left-hand side of the left runway):


And here's the renderings for what the new terminal should look like:








The information about this all comes from the following articles:
http://au.news.yahoo.com/060106/3/xh6w.html
http://house.enorth.com.cn/system/20...01193357.shtml
http://www.britishdesign.co.uk/index...roject_id=1359
http://bbs.feeeco.com/upload/2005092...1149053591.jpg


I've uploaded the pictures to photobucket to avoid leeching.

[raymond_tung88]

That's pretty sweet. China's definately an urban planner/ designer's utopia!

[Clashman]

Well, I don't know about that. I think China could definately be awarded that title for designer. Urban planning, however, can be an absolute nightmare here. China has made a lot of design choices in it's planning that look good on paper but in practical, real life situations often make things a pain in the but. If you go to a lot of recently designed parks in China, you'll see that they're made in a huge, grandiose scale, and look really neat in postcards. What happens though, is that you often just end up walking across a big, giant, empty plaza with a huge piece of corporate art in the center. It can bore the tears out of you.

[raymond_tung88]

Originally Posted by Clashman

Well, I don't know about that. I think China could definately be awarded that title for designer. Urban planning, however, can be an absolute nightmare here. China has made a lot of design choices in it's planning that look good on paper but in practical, real life situations often make things a pain in the but. If you go to a lot of recently designed parks in China, you'll see that they're made in a huge, grandiose scale, and look really neat in postcards. What happens though, is that you often just end up walking across a big, giant, empty plaza with a huge piece of corporate art in the center. It can bore the tears out of you.

I assume you're talking about places like Pudong in Shanghai. If that's correct, I completely agree with you. Its not a very pedestrian-friendly area and its also lacking in life. Its grandiose like you said, but yea... it can bore the tears out of you. Why couldn't they make Pudong like other downtowns in the world?