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Foster + Partners

Foster + Partners

London, GB

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Hong Kong International Airport

Lying at the hub of a global region that reaches across Asia and Australasia, Chek Lap Kok is one of the world's largest and most advanced airports. Completed in 1998 as Hong Kong's sole air terminal, by 2040 it is expected to handle eighty million passengers per annum - the equivalent of London's Heathrow and New York's JFK airports combined. Among the most ambitious construction projects of modern times, the land on which the airport stands was once a mountainous island. In a major reclamation programme, its 100-metre peak was reduced to 7 metres above sea level and the island was expanded to four times its original area - equal to the size of the Kowloon Peninsula.

 
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Status: Built
Location: Hong Kong, HK
Firm Role: Architect
Additional Credits: Collaborating Architect: Anthony Ng Architects Ltd. (Ground Transportation Centre only)
Structural Engineer: Ove Arup and Partners
Quantity Surveyor: WT Partnership
Landscape Architect: Urbis Travers Morgan Ltd.
Lighting Engineer: Fisher Marantz Renfro Stone