Dezeen promotion: Fentress Architects is inviting entries to its annual Fentress Global Challenge ? a competition that tasks students with designing an airport terminal for the year 2100.
First launched in 2011, the annual Fentress Global Challenge (FGC) is open to graduate and undergraduate students across the globe, and aims to advance the pursuit of innovative design in public architecture.
Designers are asked to create a new airport terminal concept, taking into consideration forecasts for the future population, environmental conditions, modes of travel and potential destinations.
The first place winner of last year's competition was Daoru Wang's Infinity Airport
"Despite a multitude of technological advances including video conferencing and drones, the proliferation of airports worldwide continues to be spurred on by global commerce and an unrelenting demand for travel," said Fentress Architects. "While the airport terminal ? conceived a century ago ? is a relatively new architectural typology, it has since its inception held equal importance with quintessential civic buildings: city halls, courthouses, libraries, museums, and theatres."
"Yet, airports are uniquely complex and they are more than just high volume transportation hubs," added the US practice. "Increasingly, airports are also workplaces, centres of commerce, recreational outlets, and cultural resources."
Samantha Pires won second place last year with her Newark Airpo...