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Harbin Taiping International Airport Terminal 3
Northern Chinese Architecture Development – design by MAD Architects
24 May 2019
Harbin Taiping International Airport Terminal 3
Design: MAD Architects
Location: Harbin, Haxi District, China
MAD Architects? ?Harbin Airport T3? Design Falls Into The Wintry Landscape Like A Snowflake

24th May 2019, Beijing, China – MAD Architects, led by Ma Yansong, releases its design for Terminal 3 of Harbin Taiping International Airport. Referencing the gentle slopes of China?s vast Northern plains, and the region?s immense snow and ice, MAD has conceived a terminal building that echoes the characteristics of Harbin?s geography and climate. Like a snowflake that has gently fallen onto the earth, it creates an architectural poetry that settles into its locale, while simultaneously expressing itself as a surreal, interstellar space of future air travel.

As the capital of Heilongjiang Province, Harbin occupies an important strategic position in the core of Northeast Asia?s hinterland, and serves as one of the largest transportation hubs of the region. Covering an area of 3,300 hectares, Terminal 3 of Harbin Airport will be comprised of a series of ancillary airport facilities, including ground transportation hubs, hotel, retail, and parking lots, that will efficiently serve the area.

While the massiveness of the terminal is ...