Kansai Airport Terminal
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| Kansai Airport Terminal | |
| Designer | Renzo Piano |
| Location | Osaka, Japan |
| Date | 1994 |
| Building Type | airport terminal |
| Climate | temperate |
| Context | waterfront, artifical island in Osaka Bay |
| Architectural Style | High Tech Modern |
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| Notes | 1.7 km long, undulating roof form. Ove Arup and Partners, engineers. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Kansai_Airport_Terminal.html |
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The Kansai Terminal Airport was designed by the architect Renzo Piano and his team of designers and finished in 1994. The main terminals’ roof design mimics the wing of an airplane. This wing shape design allows for the inhabitants to flow through the structure like the wind over a wing. The interior also represents vast canyon and in some areas exposes all four levels giving a traveler a sense of immense surrounding space similar to that of the great distance one undergoes in jet travel.
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The Architectural Review, November 1994, Volume CXCVI.
Super Structures of the World: Kansai International Airport. VHS video, NTSC format, 2000. — Video available at Amazon.com
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