Airport-City Mixed-Use Architecture
Terminal + retail + hotel + transit hub — integrated airport-city architecture for Gulf hub operators.
Modern Gulf airport projects are no longer terminals — they're airport-cities combining the passenger building with airline lounges, branded retail districts, transit hotels, ground-transport interchanges (rail, metro, taxi, autonomous shuttle) and in some cases office and exhibition zones. Foster + Partners has been integrating these programmes since Hong Kong Chek Lap Kok's airport-island master plan and Beijing T3's GTC ground-transport-centre. The studio's airport-city work in the GCC includes the Riyadh KSAU mixed-use terminal complex (real estate adjacencies coordinated with the master plan) and Amaala airport, where the terminal sits within a luxury-tourism resort masterplan. NEOM-adjacent transport architecture work continues separately. Output published at Revit LOD 350 across the full mixed-use programme.
