Hamburg Airport

The newer buildings of Terminal 1 and Shopping Plaza continue the design line of the already completed Terminal 2, which as a spacious daylight-flooded hall forms a generous spatial continuum underneath a roof with its curvature taking reference from the wing of an airplane. All terminals together are dimensioned for a passenger volume of approximately 13.5 million per year in total. A pier positioned in front interlinks the terminal like a spine.

Brief
Terminals1+2 and Shopping Plaza

Competition
1986 – 1st Prize

Design
Meinhard von Gerkan and Karsten Brauer

Client
Flughafen Hamburg GmbH

Construction period
1990–2008

Gross floor area
77,066 m², 53,000 m², 33,000 m²