Welcome to Daxing: the world’s biggest airport

Sep 27, 2019

Nicknamed the “starfish” and designed by the architecture team of the late Zaha Hadid, the terminal building alone covers 700,000 sq m. Image: REUTERS/Stringer

Kate Whiting

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The ‘starfish’ - world's biggest airport.

This is the world's biggest airport. Image: Zaha Hadid Architects/Dan Chung

At Beijing's new airport, the farthest gate is an eight-minute walk from the security checkpoint. Image: REUTERS/Stringer

Zaha Hadid Architects created the futuristic design Image: Hufton+Crow

Beijing already has the second-busiest airport in the world, PEK. Now, it will also have the largest. Image: Statista/Airport Council International

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