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Beijing Opens A New Airport With The World’s Largest Terminal That Has A Roof Window The Size Of 25 Football Fields

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Most of us have gotten quite used to the words “the world’s biggest” being used to describe various aspects of “China”. And they have just proved that right once again by building the largest airport in the world in the city of Beijing.

The second airport named Daxing has already gotten itself a nickname and is more commonly called “the starfish airport”. It was built especially to ease the growing air traffic in the Chinese capital and is expected to accommodate 72 million passengers by the year 2025.

More info: daxing-pkx-airport.com

The airport was nicknamed “Starfish” and has the world’s largest single-building terminal

Beijing Opens A New Airport With The World's Largest Terminal That Has A Roof Window The Size Of 25 Football Fields

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Beijing Opens A New Airport With The World's Largest Terminal That Has A Roof Window The Size Of 25 Football Fields

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The new airport is located 46km south of Beijing’s city center and is currently 700K square meters big with an 80K sqm ground terminal space. Despite that, there are already plans for its expansion to serve up to 100 million passengers per year in the future.

Beijing Opens A New Airport With The World's Largest Terminal That Has A Roof Window The Size Of 25 Football Fields

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Beijing Opens A New Airport With The World's Largest Terminal That Has A Roof Window The Size Of 25 Football Fields

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The main terminal building was completed on June 13th, 4 years after it broke ground. It has 4 separate floors especially designed to separate and ease the flow of arriving and departing travelers. The terminal area contains a large luxury shopping area as well as cafes.

Beijing Opens A New Airport With The World's Largest Terminal That Has A Roof Window The Size Of 25 Football Fields

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Beijing Opens A New Airport With The World's Largest Terminal That Has A Roof Window The Size Of 25 Football Fields

Image credits: hufton+crow

Beijing Opens A New Airport With The World's Largest Terminal That Has A Roof Window The Size Of 25 Football Fields

Image credits: hufton+crow

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There are even five traditional Chinese gardens at the end of each hall for travelers to find a peaceful moment in. The architecture of the terminal building itself goes in line with traditional Chinese architectural principles that organize smaller structures around a grand central courtyard.

Beijing Opens A New Airport With The World's Largest Terminal That Has A Roof Window The Size Of 25 Football Fields

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Beijing Opens A New Airport With The World's Largest Terminal That Has A Roof Window The Size Of 25 Football Fields

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Beijing Opens A New Airport With The World's Largest Terminal That Has A Roof Window The Size Of 25 Football Fields

Image credits: hufton+crow

This particular design trait allows a maximum number of airplanes to be parked at a very short distance from the terminal so the walking distance for the passenger from the terminal to the aircraft is the shortest possible.

Beijing Opens A New Airport With The World's Largest Terminal That Has A Roof Window The Size Of 25 Football Fields

Image credits: hufton+crow

Beijing Opens A New Airport With The World's Largest Terminal That Has A Roof Window The Size Of 25 Football Fields

Image credits: hufton+crow

Beijing Opens A New Airport With The World's Largest Terminal That Has A Roof Window The Size Of 25 Football Fields

Image credits: hufton+crow

Beijing Opens A New Airport With The World's Largest Terminal That Has A Roof Window The Size Of 25 Football Fields

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Beijing Opens A New Airport With The World's Largest Terminal That Has A Roof Window The Size Of 25 Football Fields

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You can learn more about the airport in the video below

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As a writer and image editor for Bored Panda, Giedrė crafts posts on many different topics to push them to their potential. She's also glad that her Bachelor’s degree in English Philology didn’t go to waste (although collecting dust in the attic could also be considered an achievement of aesthetic value!) Giedrė is an avid fan of cats, photography, and mysteries, and a keen observer of the Internet culture which is what she is most excited to write about. Since she's embarked on her journalistic endeavor, Giedrė has over 600 articles under her belt and hopes for twice as much (fingers crossed - half of them are about cats).

As a writer and image editor for Bored Panda, Giedrė crafts posts on many different topics to push them to their potential. She's also glad that her Bachelor’s degree in English Philology didn’t go to waste (although collecting dust in the attic could also be considered an achievement of aesthetic value!) Giedrė is an avid fan of cats, photography, and mysteries, and a keen observer of the Internet culture which is what she is most excited to write about. Since she's embarked on her journalistic endeavor, Giedrė has over 600 articles under her belt and hopes for twice as much (fingers crossed - half of them are about cats).

What do you think ?

Meeow 5 years ago

That looks like UFO spaceship, beautiful design!

12points

SirPatTheCat 5 years ago

The rule about this airport is that whenever you have a bounce flight it’s directly on the opposite side of the airport and you have 5 minutes to get there xD

3points

Monika Soffronow 5 years ago (edited)

Been there, done that. Heart thumping, sweat streaming. Once, the plane took off before I even sat down. Puh... :-)

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Quinn Alexander 5 years ago

It looks like Star Wars architecture. Have we finally made it to The Future™?

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Meeow 5 years ago

That looks like UFO spaceship, beautiful design!

12points

SirPatTheCat 5 years ago

The rule about this airport is that whenever you have a bounce flight it’s directly on the opposite side of the airport and you have 5 minutes to get there xD

3points

Monika Soffronow 5 years ago (edited)

Been there, done that. Heart thumping, sweat streaming. Once, the plane took off before I even sat down. Puh... :-)

0points

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Quinn Alexander 5 years ago

It looks like Star Wars architecture. Have we finally made it to The Future™?

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