Construction terminal extension and hotel Eindhoven Airport has started

The railway zone in Eindhoven plays a key role in the growth of the city and in strengthening its position as the heart of the high-tech manufacturing industry of Brainport Eindhoven. With the urban plan for Fellenoord, KCAP outlines the transformation of a mono-functional area characterised by traffic routes and office spaces into a lively, mixed-use city district with high density. With a contribution to the program of Destination EIN on September 13th, Frank Werner, urban planner and director at KCAP, will explain about the project. On October 1st during a public lecture, Kees Christiaanse will place the current urban developments in Eindhoven, Fellenoord and the future of the city in an international context. September 13th: Destination EIN, Glorieuxpark, start 3:30 p.m. October 1st: STADGESPREK Kees Christiaanse, Natlab, start 8:00 p.m., admission free. Registration/tickets via Architectuurcentrum Eindhoven.   

Kees Christiaanse together with Benedikt Boucsein and Christian Salewski are the authors of an article within the topic 'Station and airport in the city' of S+RO 2014/05. [[file:sro201405]]

Related to the two lectures of Kees Christiaanse in Barcelona this week, the daily El Pais interviewed him about airport developments.

For the recent issue of Blauwe Kamer magazine, Kees Christiaanse was interviewed as former supervisor of Schiphol Airport about the choice to invest in Lelystad Airport as location as second airport of the Netherlands. [[file:lelystad]]

Recently, the book 'megastructure Schiphol' has been released. It contains an interview with Kees Christiaanse in his role as supervisor architecture and urbanism for Schiphol 2008 - 2013. [[file:megastructureschiphol]]

The Dutch national daily De Volkskrant published last Saturday a full page article about KCAP De Bever's Eindhoven Airport terminal and hotel design. [[file:vk08390713]]

KCAP together with an international expert team has been selected to develop a masterplan underpinning the planning and development of a 70 ha site, centrally located adjacent to Terminal 2 at Dublin Airport, Ireland. The masterplan will facilitate the regeneration of this area of Dublin Airport and the development of High Technology facilities such as offices, research and development centres and associated manufacturing units. ‘The Masterplan must create a vision for the physical regeneration of this centrally located site and provide a framework that will enable Dublin Airport to be a location of choice taking a leading role in the next wave of sustainable economic development and provide exemplar accommodation appealing to both domestic and international occupiers,’ states Dublin Airport Authority (DAA). Dublin Airport first opened its doors in 1940 and passenger traffic has steadily grown to approximately 20 million passengers per year. The supporting development was largely focused on the airside operation, and the opportunity is to now focus on the central landside site as part of the masterplan. Similar to other European airports, Dublin Airport has the potential to become a business centrality within the Dublin agglomeration forming a meeting place for global exchange. ‘Well-developed examples are Amsterdam, Copenhagen or Zurich, where the sheer focus on aviation has been extended with offices and hotel functions, a public transport hub, retail, restaurants and entertainment,’ says Kees Christiaanse, founding partner of KCAP. The project team consists of KCAP Architects&Planners (masterplanning), McGarry Ní Éanaigh Architects (project management, local architect), Atelier Dreiseitl (landscape, ecology and hydrology), ARUP (mobility, economy, utilities, sustainability), Maurits Schaafsma (airport development consultant), Bannon Property Consultants with Simon O’Donnell (property and development consultants) and Stephen Little & Associates (Town Planning Consultants) . The masterplan will be completed towards the end of 2013.

Kees Christiaanse is looking back on five years supervision for Schiphol Airport. In 2008, he was appointed as the supervisor for architecture and urban design, succeeding Prof. Hubert-Jan Henket. In this function he was responsible for the overall design quality of the developments of Schiphol Airport ranging from urban design and public space to architecture and interior design.As a supervisor for Schiphol Airport, Kees Christiaanse contributed to the urban development vision of the airport area. He supervised the production of masterplans for Schiphol’s five development areas and consolidated the relationship with the surrounding municipalities. He participated in the selection of architects for Schiphol’s architectural projects and coached architects and interior designers in the elaboration of projects. He worked closely together with Maurits Schaafsma, urban planner at Schiphol Group, the terminal architect Jan Benthem (Benthem Crouwel Architects) and the landscape architect Adriaan Geuze (West 8 Urban Design & Landscape Architecture). Kees Christiaanse has built up considerable experience in airport developments in the last decade. He is responsible for the urbanistic and architectural design of the terminal and hotel of Eindhoven Airport. He designed studies for Linate Milan and Zürich Airport; and for Schiphol Airport, KCAP worked on the new parking concept Transfer City, the office building ‘the Comet’ and the competition for Martin Air headquarters. Recently, KCAP received the commission to design the Geneva airport region and the airport city of Dublin Airport. In the field of research, Kees Christiaanse investigates the urbanisation patterns of international airport regions within the platform ‘Airports and Cities’, which he founded 2010 within the Chair of Architecture and Urban Design at ETH Zurich, in collaboration with TU Munich and TU Delft. ‘What is crucial for the development of airports is flexibility, the possibility for expansion and avoiding that greater interventions effect one another,’ says Kees Christiaanse. ‘This creates ...

The extension of the terminal of Eindhoven Airport and the new hotel Tulip Inn Eindhoven Airport, both designed by KCAP Architects&Planners and De Bever Architecten, are officially opened today. KCAP and De Bever together with NACO as the 'Constellation' were also responsible for the first terminal built in 2005. The extension consists of a new 2.000 m2 entrance zone with additional retail, bars and restaurants on the ground floor, a 2.700 m2 extension of the arrival hall and 2.700 m2 of offices on the first floor. The 8 storey hotel offers 120 hotel rooms, a bar, breakfast space and fitness facilities; a restaurant and meeting rooms are offered within the terminal building. 'With the realisation of the extension and the hotel, the terminal will be able to facilitate the increasing passenger growth until 2020. We expect by then around 5 million passengers,' says Joost Meijs, General Director Eindhoven Airport. In 2012, Eindhoven Airport closed with a record of almost 3 million passengers. After realisation of the new terminal in 2005 approximately 1 million passengers have been processed in that year. The possibility of an extension was already part of the original design. A growth model has been developed in which separate building elements can be realised independent of each other, such as the extension of the terminal, the entrance area and the hotel. 'The growth model is part of our urban development vision for Eindhoven Airport to transform into a hub for mobility and business activity and offers the necessary flexibility to react to future developments,' says Kees Christiaanse, founder of KCAP. 'Like the first terminal building the extension and the new hotel are characterised by functionality and transparency. In form and material they clearly refer to the techniques and dynamics of aviation industry,' says Stefan de Bever, partner of De Bever Architecten. ...

Two weeks ago the Tulip Inn logo was mounted to the facade of the new Eindhoven Airport hotel. The hotel is estimated to open in the summer of 2013. View the video here.  

The extension of the existing terminal building and the new 120 rooms hotel at Eindhoven Airport reach their highest point on Wednesday October 10th. Construction has started in late 2011. Delivery of the complex is planned for 2013.

Yesterday, the official ceremony to celebrate the start of the construction of the extension of the existing terminal and the new hotel at Eindhoven Airport took place on site. Construction works have already been started late 2011. Delivery of the terminal and hotel are planned for 2013.See also earlier news of December 2011.