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The article discusses the amount of effort it took to build and design Beijing Airport's Terminal 3. Because of a short timetable to build the structure, the site employed construction workers in three shifts, seven days a week. Challenges faced by this hectic time-table, which was established because of the 2008 Olympic Games, are detailed.

The article discusses the architectural design of Beijing Airport's Terminal 3. The terminal, which was designed by Foster + Partners, alludes to an organic form that is both beautiful and efficient for passengers. The author discusses the design of the roof, which is a simple diagrid, and tapered columns used for support.

Describes the concept and design for the construction of the new airport terminal building at Madrid's Barajas Airport in Spain, designed by Richard Rogers Partnership and Estudio Lamela. Features of the design of the project; Background of the first airport in Barajas; Motive for designing the terminal building. INSET: Assembly, by Barrie Evans.

Details the interior design of Check Lap Kok International Airport's lounges in Hong Kong, China. Design requirements; Design of the airport's public gallery; Types of pavilions; Design layout; Light as component of the airport's design.

Features the Air Canada Ltd. airline lounge at the airport in Vancouver, British Columbia. Design by architectural firm Patkau Architects; Design of lounge for first class passengers; Transformation of the lounge into an art gallery with display of artifacts from the Museum of Anthropology.

The article discusses the design of Beijing Airport's Terminal 3 building. The author says that the strategy in the building's services is ingenious, energy conscious and was executed in record time. The building was designed by Foster + Partners and Arup, which only had two months to produce design drawings.

The article reports on the construction project for the expansion of Stansted Airport managed by British Airports Authority. Ever since Foster and Partners designed its iconic terminal with steel trees supporting the roof, BAA has been using Stansted as a testing ground for innovative construction techniques that it can use on its entire airport portfolio. The coach station project is also Foster-designed, boasting an ethylene tetrafluoro-ethylene roof. INSET: Runway manoeuvres.

The article discusses the author's experience of a conversation with Richard Rogers, Ivan Harbour and Simon Smithson who are related to the construction of the Barajas Airport in Spain. The airport building has won the 2006 Stirling Prize. Rogers said that he is proud of the building. Harbour commented on what must be a standard anecdote about the airport. Also, Smithson said that Spain is better for architecture than Holland.

The article discusses the proposal by architectural firm Foster + Partners to build an estuary airport located on the Isle of Grain to serve London, England. The article discusses the development of the airport including new road and an "airport city," the possible closure of Heathrow Airport and workers to service the proposed airport.

The article discusses the benefits and features of movement monitoring technology, from Geotechnical Observation, used in London, England's Heathrow airport's Terminal 2 Building (T2B), to record its movement. The vertical movement of the building is monitored by a liquid leveling system and horizontal displacements by in-place inclinometers and shape arrays. Micro-electromechanical gravity sensors measure tilt.

The article presents the author's views on the architectural design of the Terminal 5 (T5) at Heathrow Airport in London, England. The author contrasts the procurement history of T5 and the Bennetts building built by Bennetts Associates. She also asserts that the Bennetts building used a severely rationalist approach of repeating elements. An approach, she further contends, was used in designing T5.

The article reports that Shropshire, England gained a new tourist attraction following the opening of RAF Cosford's latest aircraft hangar. The hangar's geometry was created by placing a pair of hyperbolic parabaloids back to back. The design enables an apparently complex form to be achieved with a consistent and economic structural system, according to Louise Crick, project engineer at Michael Barclay Partnership.

The article presents information related to Richard Rogers Partnership, a company. The company has announced that it is going to change its name. As a building type, the Barajas Airport brings a certain intellectual credence to some of Richard's more whimsical conceits. The colour coding which Richard enjoys so much can seem a little wilful on a building of any conventional size.

The article presents the British Airports Authority's (BAA) complex projects framework to be awarded in March 2007 where more than twenty contractors had pre-qualified. The framework contractors will work on the new capital projects in a model very similar to Heathrow Terminal 5 with integrated design and build teams and risk sharing according to BAA commercial director Ken Owen.

The article reports on the opening on the Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand. The site is dominated by the huge terminal building and its tubular concourse extensions, stretching outwards in an H-shaped plan across the airfield. Murphy/Jahn and TAMS with local firm ACT consultants carried out the architectural design.

Reports that GMW Architects is leading the redevelopment of pier six at Terminal 3, in order to accommodate the Airbus A380 superjumbo. Location of the proposed escape shaft from the Heathrow Express train service.

Editorial. Argues in favor of the construction of a new airport in Madrid, Spain co-designed by Richard Rogers Partnership, the architect of Terminal 5 in Great Britain. Comments on the management of airport operation by the British Airports Authority; Status of architects in Spain; Presence of standardization in Madrid.