BRU infrastructure: future

[airbuske]

At the end of the A pier,BAC made 3 A/C stands and painted some sort of walking lines (symbol looks like when you are near a school)to each stand.Each walk line is surrounded with concrete blocks,are these Low cost stands ?

Saw this also and it will be indeed for LCC.

[Established02]

Bekendmaking

[luchtzak]

Bekendmaking

To announce that TUI Airlines Belgium will re-build the hangar 40.

[flightlover]

Tec4jets is doing great it seams.

[Boavida]

Look at the impressive plans for the connector building between the Terminal and Pier A:

http://www.unstudio.com/projects/brusse ... -connector

(Click on the picture for more pics)

Stunning architecture!!

[RoMax]

Looks really nice. Nice shape, the sides seem to be of glass and the roof also has quite some glass in it. So a lot of daylight, a big difference with the current tunnel to the A-pier. If that would really become the connector (the status mentions "competition entry", so this is far from a final design), the A-pier (including the future extension)/Connector will be a very nice part of the airport. And with the use of the right materials such a design is not necesserally expensive either (and I suppose it may not be too expensive as they have certain budget to achieve several projects, like connector, A-pier extension,...)

What do bothers me...you see Transavia and Air France all over the airport...

[BrusselsAirlines]

Yep, they got a clear view of the future - Lufthansa & KLM AF - all the rest = gone...

[Atlantis]

But what important is with UNStudio is that the architect office of M & J-M Jaspers - J Eyers & Partners is involved in this.
This office is also responsible of the building of Pier B, Pier A, the Gateway-project. They are only an advisor for UNStudio, but they are major important.

BTW do you also saw at the bottom of the picture, T2 with the airplane stands??

[SN539]

Look at the impressive plans for the connector building between the Terminal and Pier A:

http://www.unstudio.com/projects/brusse ... -connector

(Click on the picture for more pics)

Stunning architecture!!

The project of UN STUDIO is indeed very impressive .. but unfortunately I don't think this project is the winner of the architecture competition ...

[RoMax]

The project of UN STUDIO is indeed very impressive .. but unfortunately I don't think this project is the winner of the architecture competition ...

Just out of interest, is there already taken a decision?

Anyway, I'm not sure either this design can win the 'competition'. But why not? It depends on several things: can it this be achieved in the projected time phrame, will this design not exceed the projected budget, is it usable/efficient for this, ... If this questions can be awnsered positivily this design can easilly win. The A-pier (including the connector) and the future Terminal 2 are going to be the hub for SN/Star Alliance, the gateway to Belgium, the transfer hub to Africa, ... . This has to be impressive. And look at other new airport constructions all over the world, even from very small airports. They all seem impressive lately. Why shouldn't BRU do this? Maybe it is typicall Belgian to be negative about such impressive projects... (btw, SN539: with this I don't say you all say this, but your post was the ideal opportunity to say this )

[Conti764]

Am I really the only one who thinks this design is plain ugly? It doesn't fit in the surrounding infrastructure neither.

[sn26567]

Am I really the only one who thinks this design is plain ugly? It doesn't fit in the surrounding infrastructure neither.

No, you are not the only one, but I have to keep some neutrality here...

[Boavida]

Am I really the only one who thinks this design is plain ugly? It doesn't fit in the surrounding infrastructure neither.

So you prefer boring architecture like 95% of all buildings in Belgium? Come on. If you go to Holland (or France, or Germany, or...), it's amazing how many great new architecture you see, while in Belgium it's the opposite.

I'm very happy about this (proposed) design. Have you seen the inside? It looks amazing.

[Stij]

I agree!

BRU needs an eyecatcher! I have an idea, let's call Calatrava and ask him to do for BRU what he did for Liège-Guillemins and is doing for Mons: putting the buildings and cities on the map!

Kind regards,

Stij

P.S. I like UN Studio's design if it's functional...

[Conti764]

Am I really the only one who thinks this design is plain ugly? It doesn't fit in the surrounding infrastructure neither.

So you prefer boring architecture like 95% of all buildings in Belgium? Come on. If you go to Holland (or France, or Germany, or...), it's amazing how many great new architecture you see, while in Belgium it's the opposite.

I'm very happy about this (proposed) design. Have you seen the inside? It looks amazing.

Well, first of all I am not into this kind of futuristic Star Wars-design, but that's just subject to our own taste of course. More importantly though, I prefer a modern, light design that fits into the surrounding area. This proposal doesn't resemble any of the buildings it connects, not the terminal, nor the A-pier.

At the existing airport you already see some sort of clash between different generations of constructing, Although opening the A-pier was only about 7 years later then opening the terminal and the B-pier, the latter is more a to-the-point, straight building while the first is more curvacious and lighter. The proposed design squeezes another kind of infrastructure in between the two: a sharp futuristic design which would fit nicely on a completely new terminal, but not in between two other buildings who differ heavily from each other already.

I would prefer this proposal:





As modern, as functional as the other proposal, but albeit being something different as well, not as sharp a clash with the current infra as the one from UN studios.

But that's just my opinion.

[Conti764]

I agree!

BRU needs an eyecatcher! I have an idea, let's call Calatrava and ask him to do for BRU what he did for Liège-Guillemins and is doing for Mons: putting the buildings and cities on the map!

Kind regards,

Stij

P.S. I like UN Studio's design if it's functional...

Calatrava's design for Guillemins is beautiful, but it is a building on its own and the city of Liège has some major plans with the surrounding area making the building even fit more into the surrounding. A major (international) station like Guillemins has a central city function in the opinion of the NMBS and thus deserves an outstanding design. The Connector at BRU only has the function to funnel peopla between the terminal and the A-pier and thus does not need an outstanding design imho.

Besides, Calatrava is not a good option. Wasn't Guillemins highly over budget?

Off topic: the most astonishing train station in this country is Antwerp Central Station in my opinion. Old and new perfectly blended together.

[Stij]

Calatrava's design for Guillemins is beautiful, but it is a building on its own and the city of Liège has some major plans with the surrounding area making the building even fit more into the surrounding. A major (international) station like Guillemins has a central city function in the opinion of the NMBS and thus deserves an outstanding design. The Connector at BRU only has the function to funnel peopla between the terminal and the A-pier and thus does not need an outstanding design imho.

Besides, Calatrava is not a good option. Wasn't Guillemins highly over budget?

Off topic: the most astonishing train station in this country is Antwerp Central Station in my opinion. Old and new perfectly blended together.

1. Architecture can be used as publicity. Every article written about the architecture of your building is free publicity. So good architecture pays of. People visit Liège these days for its railwaystation, beleive it or not.
2. Oh yes, Guillemins went (way) over budget, but was this Calatrava's fault or certain politicians who knew the real budget would never be approved... Funny, isn;t it, major public projects always go way over budget!
3. I worked on the Guillemins project, so, it's kind of my "baby"... so allow me to say this: Antwerp is a very beautiful solution for the given problem (keep the old building, but still drill a tunnel under it and augment the capacity drastically), but Guillemins is out of this world.

Kind regards,

Stij

[Atlantis]

The new Remote Arrival Lounge (RAL) is ready and officialy opened on 22 December. This new lounge is build at the beginning of Pier B at the position R5 and R6.

The new Remote Departure Lounge will be ready in April next year and will have it's place at the old Remote Arrival Lounge

[RoMax]

We already saw some renderings about possible 'Connector' designs, and this is another one:

http://www.beelachtergael.be/projects/connectionbuildingairportzaventem/en/index.php

Honestly I liked the previous designs I saw more. This is another desing like you can see so much, nothing really special.

BTW, is their already taken a decision about the design, this website stil mentions it as "in competition", but maybe it's not up to date?
And already some things known about the planned start of the project (and also the other projects)?

[RoMax]

And another design for the connector at Brussels Airport, this time from Abscis.
How many designs have we seen (on the internet)? 3, 4?

See for pictures:
http://abscis-architecten.be/projects/brussels-airport-connector-building/

Really no news yet on a final decision and when works should start?