Passenger Terminal World - June 2024
19 August 2024
Singapore Changi Airport’s refurbished second terminal is simply stunning – and even more noteworthy as it is the first time the project’s interior designer has ever worked on an airport
Singapore’s Changi Airport describes its recently revamped Terminal 2 (T2) as a place “where nature meets modernity”. The terminal expansion spans three levels, including the arrival and departure halls, and Level 3, where new food and beverage options are available.
Basile Boiffils, managing director and principal architect at Boiffils Architectures, the interior design lead for the project, notes that the brief was relatively simple: “To expand the capacity, but while doing so, to completely refresh the terminal’s atmosphere.”
Work began in January 2020, just two months before Singapore closed its borders because of the Covid-19 pandemic, and was completed in November 2023. Terminal 2 has since been nominated for numerous awards and attracted the attention of some of the world’s leading architectural publications.
The facility’s reopening has restored fourterminal operations at Changi Airport, significantly boosting throughput, with the expansion adding 21,000m2 to T2 and increasing capacity by five million passengers per annum to 28mppa, taking Changi’s total capacity to 90mppa.
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