SEPilot From United States of America, joined Dec 2006, 6256 posts, RR: 39 Reply 1, posted (5 years 2 months 3 weeks 5 days 4 hours ago) and read 3000 times:
Quoting NEMA (Thread starter): The new Beijing airport terminal is reputedly the biggest building in the world,
So the terminal is bigger than the Boeing-Everett plant? What do they do-bring the planes into the terminal?
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Ohsopc From Thailand, joined Jul 2006, 107 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (5 years 2 months 3 weeks 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 2527 times:
It's not the biggest building in the world. It's not even the biggest airport terminal building in the world. This is because the terminal is actually three seperate buildings connected together by a train system. Currently the biggest airport terminal is Hong Kong's Terminal 1, and followed by Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport.
Ryanair!!! From Singapore, joined Mar 2002, 4652 posts, RR: 27 Reply 5, posted (5 years 2 months 3 weeks 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 2302 times:
Quoting ScrubbsYWG (Reply 4): doesn't that bring up the debate over what constitutes a building?
I think the thread's title is pretty obvious, AIRPORT TERMINAL. I take that as a reference to a concrete sheltered structure . Unless he wrote LARGEST AIRPORT, then that could encompass everything within the perimeter area.
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ScrubbsYWG From Canada, joined Mar 2007, 1486 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (5 years 2 months 3 weeks 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 2080 times:
Quoting Ryanair!!! (Reply 5): I think the thread's title is pretty obvious, AIRPORT TERMINAL. I take that as a reference to a concrete sheltered structure . Unless he wrote LARGEST AIRPORT, then that could encompass everything within the perimeter area.
Well, in the OP, he is saying a show said that the airport is the biggest building in the world.
The point i was making was does a covered area without any walls that is used for one event a year constitute a building?
Slider From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 6518 posts, RR: 37 Reply 9, posted (5 years 2 months 3 weeks 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 1918 times:
Quoting Ohsopc (Reply 2): Currently the biggest airport terminal is Hong Kong's Terminal 1, and followed by Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport.
And I believe they had just surpassed DTW midfield, correct? I seem to recall, at the time, that DTW Midfield was the largest in the world.
I guess this is where we get into the details of how this metric is gauged--cubic space, dimensions, what?
Cloudyapple From Hong Kong, joined Jul 2005, 2425 posts, RR: 9 Reply 10, posted (5 years 2 months 3 weeks 3 days 11 hours ago) and read 1861 times:
Quoting Ryanair!!! (Reply 3): Nope, it is HAJ Terminal in Jeddah. That is the largest terminal building in the world.
It's more of a tent isn't it? Or a marquee?
Quoting Ohsopc (Reply 2): Currently the biggest airport terminal is Hong Kong's Terminal 1, and followed by Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport.
HKIA T1 contains the biggest continuous volume of enclosed space on a single level. It's 1400m to walk from end to end.
Beijing, while having a similar design by the same architect (Lord Foster), is split up into 3 blocks. The 2 end blocks are each 1100 to walk from end to end. The middle block is 480m.
If you visit Beijing, Hong kong and London Stansted, you will find a lot of similarities amonst them, especially between HK and Beijing. It's been a learning process for Norman Forster doing these 3 airports. What they complained about at Stansted he fixed at Hong Kong. What we complained about at Hong Kong he fixed at Beijing.
Burnsie28 From United States of America, joined Aug 2004, 7411 posts, RR: 9 Reply 11, posted (5 years 2 months 3 weeks 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 1779 times:
I was looking at Beijings airport, is the old terminal staying open? Because it didn't mention NW moving to the new terminal in either phase.
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