Beijing’s new Daxing Airport, the most expensive ever built and touted as the world’s biggest single-terminal airport building at 7.53million sq ft, has opened for operations. Designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, it took five years and more than US$11 billion to complete. 
The distinctive star-shaped layout takes up 47 square km – more than half the size of Hong Kong Island, and is the first airport to have two-storey departure gates, to increase capacity. 
Other firms that have collaborated on the project include French planners ADPI and the Beijing Institute of Architectural Design, while Hong Kong studio Lead 8 has designed the integrated service building.
The distinctive star-shaped layout takes up 47 square km – more than half the size of Hong Kong Island, and is the first airport to have two-storey departure gates, to increase capacity. Other firms that have collaborated on the project include French planners ADPI and the Beijing Institute of Architectural Design, while Hong Kong studio Lead 8 has designed the integrated service building.
