New projects from Zurich Airport by Roken Yamamoto & Field Shop
2010-02-17
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Japanese practice wins competition to design Zurich Airport mixed-use scheme
Japanese architects Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop have beaten 90 practices including Zaha Hadid Architects to design a 200,000sq m mixed-use building at Zurich Airport.
The practice beat four other finalists – Hadid, US firm Asymptote Architecture, Swiss practice Dürig AG and Belgium’s Xaveer De Geyter – with the full 90 entries hailing from 12 countries.
The Circle is a £547 million project to serve the airport’s 22 million annual passengers, and includes shops and a hotel. The client describes it as one of the world’s most ambitious airport real estate projects and hopes it will become a destination in its own right.
An airport spokesman said Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop’s entry was “characterised primarily by Swiss understatement and high atmospheric quality derived from the eloquence of its compact urban format”.
The architect will now develop the initial concept to ensure it fits Zürich Airport’s financial, design and functionality requirements.
Work is due to start in 2012 and be completed by about 2016.