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Kuwait International Air Terminal Building
Location
Farwaniyah
Country
Kuwait

Architect/Engineer/Team
Kenzo Tange

Construction
1967/1979

Project Status
Built
Building Type
Airport

Notes
Tange designed the Kuwait International Airport in 1967. At the time, it was conceived for a flux of 2 million passengers a year. Today, the airport has reached a capacity of 8 million, its expansion and modification having already begun in 1988 by other architects.
Originally, the terminal building was designed in the shape of a jet plane, with gates along the main body, arrival and departure halls in each of its wings, and lobbies on the lower level. It covered an area of 67,046 sqm with three main storeys above ground level amounting to a six-storey rise in the center of the building. The structure consisted of reinforced concrete with a steel frame roof covered by a membrane. Before its modification, its vast yet simple concrete interior reflected local maritime tradition in its sail-like suspended geometry.

See photos on architects' website. 
Sources

Tange Associates

Kultermann, Udo, Contemporary Architecture in the Arab States: Renaissance of a Region. McGraw Hill, 1999, pp. 101-102

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