Urumqi International Airport North Terminal | HKS Architects Ürümqi, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China The Challenge This international airport is situated at the historical crossroads of East and West, both physically and conceptually. Design competitors were challenged to incorporate the intertwined cultures and histories of China’s centuries-old Silk Road region into an airport for the new millennium. The Design Solution Created with Pascall+Watson, this concept for a 4.3 million square foot airport terminal draws upon influences from the cultures, history and topography of central Asia and China’s Silk Road. The Silk Road, a 4,000-mile network of interlinking trade routes forming an historical connection and continuous journey between Asia and Europe, is an appropriate precedent

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