Archinect - News2024-12-04T03:26:43-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/150428987/zaha-hadid-architects-updates-progress-on-navi-mumbai-airport-delivery
Zaha Hadid Architects updates progress on Navi Mumbai Airport delivery Josh Niland2024-05-27T08:00:00-04:00>2024-05-28T14:00:56-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/04/04b214d7655dad5885205f6ed48f7803.jpeg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Work is progressing on the <a href="https://archinect.com/zaha-hadid" target="_blank">Zaha Hadid Architects</a> (ZHA) design for the Navi Mumbai International Airport in India six years after construction began on the $2.1 billion project, which is the firm’s second ongoing aviation project with the <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150367837/construction-update-halfway-through-for-zha-cox-architecture-s-western-sydney-international-airport-project" target="_blank">Western Sydney International Airport</a> outside Australia’s largest city. </p>
<p>ZHA says construction is now 60% complete and on track for passenger operations to begin in 2025. Three new terminals will be added, serving an eventual capacity of 90 million travelers per year. </p>
<p>“Our ambition is for the design to speak to India’s future, while celebrating its present and honoring its past,” ZHA's Project Director Cristiano Ceccato <a href="https://archinect.com/news/bustler/6379/zaha-hadid-architects-appointed-to-design-navi-mumbai-international-airport" target="_blank">said at its announcement</a> in February of 2018.</p>
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SOM-designed Mumbai Airport Terminal 2 celebrates its inauguration Justine Testado2014-01-13T18:34:00-05:00>2024-01-23T19:16:08-05:00
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The Chhatrapatri Shivaji International Airport Terminal 2 designed by <a href="http://WWW.SOM.COM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill</a> celebrated its opening late last week in Mumbai. India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, along with visiting dignitaries and representatives from the developer GVK, inaugurated the new terminal. The structure's design combines domestic and international services, reduces passenger walking distances, and adds 4.4 million square feet to accommodate the airport's 40 million passengers a year.<br><br>
Here's some more details on the project:<br><br><img alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/l7/l71y44j2fv9ou9hv.jpg" title=""><br><br>
"Inspired by the form of traditional Indian pavilions, the four-story terminal stacks a grand "headhouse," or central processing podium, on top of highly adaptable and modular concourses below. Rather than compartmentalizing terminal functions, three symmetrical concourses radiate outwards from a central processing core and are therefore easily reconfigured to "swing" between serving domestic flights or international flights.<br><br>
All international and domestic ...</p>