I will build: Kansai International Airport

Saturday, January 31, 2009

Kansai International Airport

Kansai International Airport is located on two artificial islands in the middle of Osaka Bay in Japan. It´s the first airport located on an man-made island.

The construction:

In 1987 the construction began.
In 1989 the sea wall of the first Island was completed.
In 1990 the 3km long bridge was finished.
Between 1991 and 1994 the Terminal was built. It was designed by the world renowned Italian architect Renzo Piano, the same architect who designed the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

On the 19th April 2001, the airport was one of then ten structures which were given the "Civil Engineering Monument of the Millennium" award by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

In the next video we can learn a lot of aspects concerning the building of the Kansai International Airport, like how to resolve the gradual sinking of the island, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of locating an airport in the middle of the sea.

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