Hong Kong International Airport is an airport on the reclaimed island of Chek Lap Kok in Hong Kong, its passenger terminal designed by Foster and Partners as part of a consortium led by Mott Connell, and opened on July 6, 1998 after six years of construction. At around 570,000 square meters, the terminal was among the largest airport buildings in the world at its opening, built with a long, gently vaulted roof and glazed sides designed to break away safely under extreme wind loads so the structure could withstand a typhoon. Sky bridges connect the terminal to satellite concourses over taxiways wide enough for an Airbus A380 to pass beneath. The airport replaced the former Kai Tak Airport and has since expanded with additional terminals and a third runway.
Facts
Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account LocationSourced to the subject's own accountChek Lap Kok, Hong Kong 1 Completed YearSourced to the subject's own account Classification
Standing StatusSourced to the subject's own account Building Type
Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own accountTransport Terminal (Airport, Ferry, etc.) 1 Connections
Designed By
Foster and Partners led design as the airport terminal's architects; Norman Foster is the firm's founder and principal.
Source Wikipedia: Hong Kong International Airport
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
In Style
A High-Tech architecture landmark terminal.
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: China, located there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Hong Kong International Airport
WikipediaLead paragraph, first sentence
Hong Kong International Airport (IATA: HKG, ICAO: VHHH) is an international airport located on the island of Chek Lap Kok in western Hong Kong.
Lead paragraph, second sentence
It is also home to one of the world's largest passenger terminal buildings, which was the largest when the airport opened.
History section, construction and handover paragraph, last sentence
Soon after, the airport itself opened in July 1998.
- infobox building_type/type field: Public
Entity description and the lead of the Wikipedia article
Hong Kong International Airport is an airport on the reclaimed island of Chek Lap Kok in Hong Kong, its passenger terminal designed by Foster and Partners as part of a consortium led by Mott Connell, and opened on July 6, 1998 after six years of construction. At around 570,000 square meters, the terminal was among the largest airport buildings in the world at its opening, built with a long, gently vaulted roof and glazed sides designed to break away safely under extreme wind loads so the structure could withstand a typhoon. Sky bridges connect the terminal to satellite concourses over taxiways wide enough for an Airbus A380 to pass beneath. The airport replaced the former Kai Tak Airport and has since expanded with additional terminals and a third runway.
Designed By: Norman Foster, History section, design consortium paragraph
The detailed design for the airport terminal was awarded to a consortium led by Mott Connell (the Hong Kong office of UK consultant Mott MacDonald) with BAA PLC as the specialist designers for airport-related aspects, Foster and Partners as the architects, and Ove Arup as the specialist structural designers for the roof.
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