Mexico City’s New International Airport

[ad_1] Photography: dbox_Foster+Partners; courtesy Foster+Partners . Mexico City’s proposed new airport “pioneers a new concept for a large-span, single airport enclosure, which will achieve new levels of efficiency and flexibility”, says Lord Foster.   Foster+Partners, FR-EE (Fernando Romero Enterprise) and NACO (Netherlands Airport Consultants) has won the international competition to design the new international airport for Mexico City. Touted to be one of the world’s largest airports at 555,000 sq. m., here is yet another airport project that is said to revolutionize airport design: the entire terminal proposes to be enclosed within a continuous lightweight gridshell, embracing walls and roof in […]