Ricardo Bofill Barcelona Airport

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Ricardo bofill barcelona airport. The opening of terminal 1 at the barcelona airport solidified barcelona s position as one of europe s top ten airports. Ricardo bofill taller de arquitectura location. The mission of the new terminal is to serve as a communications gateway linking barcelona with the rest of europe and the world to promote passenger mobility and to expand connections to the airport by different forms of transport high speed train local trains and the subway. 525 000 sqm date of completion.

He studied at the barcelona university school of architecture and graduated from the school of geneva. A new terminal 1 designed by ricardo bofill was inaugurated on 16 june 2009. Terminal 1 barcelona airport. The barcelona 1992 olympics games required refurbishing and expanding the existing terminal to provide the city with a modern gateway for visitors and athletes.

Ricardo bofill was born into a family of builders in 1939 in barcelona. The airport terminal has an area of 548 000 m 2 5 900 000 sq ft an aircraft ramp of 600 000 m 2 6 500 000 sq ft 13 000 new parking spaces and 45 new gates expandable to 60. At the age of 17 ricardo bofill designed his first project a summer home in ibiza and by 23 became lead architect of el taller. Ricardo bofill leví is a spanish architect who since 1963 continues to lead the international architectural and urban design practice ricardo bofill taller de arquitectura.