Air Traffic Control Tower Design
ATC tower architecture — sightline-driven cabs, ICAO-compliant heights, integrated into terminal master plans.
Foster + Partners designs air-traffic-control towers as integrated architectural elements of the airport master plan rather than purely functional engineering objects. The studio's tower work addresses cab sightline geometry to every runway threshold and taxiway intersection, ICAO Annex 14 height clearances, controller ergonomics, glare and reflection management on the cab glazing, and seismic / wind loading on slender vertical structures. New commissions in Saudi Arabia (Riyadh KSAU master-plan area) and on Red Sea Project airports apply the same approach. Towers published at Revit LOD 400 with controller-line-of-sight simulation overlaid on airfield geometry.
