Western Sydney Airport, New South Wales, Australian Commercial Building, International Architecture Competition
Western Sydney Airport, New South Wales
Architecture Competition Winners, NSW, Australia ? design by Zaha Hadid Architects and Cox Architecture
29 Oct 2019
Western Sydney Airport
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects and Cox Architecture
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Zaha Hadid Architects and Cox Architecture win the Western Sydney Airport competition

Sydney, 29th October 2019

This morning it was announced that Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) (London, UK) and Cox Architecture (COX) (Sydney, NSW) have won the international design competition for the new Western Sydney Airport (WSA) and been appointed as Master Architect for the project. The ZHA / COX team was selected from a broad field of forty national and international applicants that was narrowed to five selected design competitors.
The Western Sydney International (Nancy-Bird Walton) Airport, named after the famous Australian aviatrix, is a new greenfield airport in Sydney?s new western Parkland City region. Together with the original Harbour City on the coast and the River City around Paramatta, the Parkland City will become Sydney?s third urban hub, stimulating the city?s western expansion in the decades to come. The Western Sydney Airport will be a fundamental catalyst for this growth, with the city?s greater metropolitan area set to reach 9 million by 2040.

The new Western Sydney Airport will be b...