New Beijing Airport * Foster's golden Nessie

olympic snake! oops, dragon -- of course ... beijing-ness: a double-headed tradition, colors and symbols ...


http://www.bbzine.com/3lue3eams/bluebeams.html


BCIA -- Beijing Capital International Airport T3, the new Beijing International Airport Terminal 3 -- Beijing Capital Airport building expansion PEK intl Terminal Three for the 2008 Beijing Olympics non-competition venue -- New China Imperial gateway with desperately seeking chinese soaring roof poetry of flight biomorphic oil thrill skylight scales passive environmental design energy-conservation hi-tech -- literal green-washing -- streamline aerodynamic airfoil aeronautical analogy metaphor of sustainability -- Lord Norman Foster + Partners Buckminster Fuller NACO UFO futuristic kitsch high-tech space-frame -- Beijing Institute of Architectural Design and Research -- late modern bucky concorde postmodern machine aesthetic A380Airbus super-jumbo feng shui salesman ... [*]

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[Maige2900]

omg fuck all the media speculations, china is a large nation with a booming economy it needs an airport like this, u west are all jealous

[tasyin]

they'd be happy to see a China as poor and backward as they have always imgained. Yeah reality hurts.

[trent8002003]

That's why Beijing International looks like a variation on the same theme of Hong Kong International.

[antVally]

china does need bigger airports than anywhere on this planet, just think about the 1.3 billion populaion.

[lyric60616]

Beijing is going to build another airport bigger than this one in the south suburb now.

[Donz5885]

Wait a minute, my country airport also compete with Jebel Ali Airport. We called it Project Aeropolis at KLIA.

[Puntonghua]

mayyoubekind: Yeah what ever... seriously ---> GET A LIFE

[klipsch21]

heh wait till jebel ali airport is finished in dubai, $62 billion, and could handle up to 120 million passengers annually