Kansai international airport

Kansai Airport is an extra-ordinary feast of an engineering marvel. This man made island is situated 50 km from the center of Osaka city, Japan. This man-made island is 4 km long and 2.5 km wide. This airport is sinking at the rate of 9cm per annum.

Kansai airport, is located on a specially built island in the Bay of Osaka. The terminal is 1.7 km long, with 42 boarding gates, designed to handle..

Traveling Between Osaka and Kansai International Airport – Osaka Station

Well-known architecture critic Paul Goldberger argues that airport efficiency should be a given, but aesthetic design, although becoming more common, is by no means the industry standard.

Kansai International Airport was designed by Renzo Piano to be functional. Photo is by Dennis Gilbert.

Kansai International Airport was built on an artificial island in the Osaka Bay by the architectural bureau Renzo Piano. The 1.7 km long terminal opened in 1994 and is capable of handling 100,000 passengers per day. The long and lightweight structure was designed with the region's heightened seismic hazard in mind and is capable of withstanding strong earthquakes. #architecture#design

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Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning Italian architect Renzo Piano. In partnership with English architect Richard Rogers, Piano also designed the Pompidou Centre in Paris. Kansai International Airport 関西国際空港, Osaka 大阪市, Kansai 関西地方, Honshu 本州, Japan 日本国 (Sunday 21 Sep 2008 @ 6:35pm). ISO160 | f/8 | [1/13, 1/25, 1/50] sec | 17mm | eval meter | AWB | raw | tripod