Terminal construction brings signature building to western China

摘要

In the year in which this century began -they year, as the Chinese denoted, of the dragon—a British design team led by the London-based firms Arup and Llewelyn Davies won a competition for an airport terminal in western China. The team's striking design was inspired by the form of the mythical creature that characterized that year. 'We based the design for the structure's roof on the curvature of a dragons vertebrae,' says Bert McCabe, the director of Llwelyn Davies.