Richard Rogers' Firm Wins Competition for Taiwan Airport

RSHP previously designed Terminal 4 at Madrid Barajas Airport and Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport in London, and currently they are working on Terminal 1 of Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport in France. The firm asserts this experience aided in their win in the terminal for Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, the former Chiang Kai-shek International Airport. They even said in a statement, "The design for Taoyuan Terminal 3 ... has brought together the flexibility of the single span, loose fit volume of Heathrow Terminal 5 with the warmth and human qualities of the flowing interior spaces of Barajas Terminal 4."

Here is the project description from RSHP:
 

The design is inspired by Taiwan’s beautiful landscapes, the seas surrounding it, its rhythms of nature and life to create a series of unique interior places designed for their purpose and protected beneath an elegant hard shell roof. Within, a soft inner surface is malleable and dynamic to celebrate and form the ever changing spaces below. The nature of the interior spaces whether grand, intimate, uniform or dramatic and the extent of those spaces too can be changed. Adjustable scaling will give passengers spatial clarity in all areas; large, small, busy or quiet, to reduce stress and improve wellbeing and comfort. This flexibility ensures the airport is always at its best and suitably presented as the principal gateway to and from Taiwan to the rest of the world.

RSHP is collaborating with Taiwanese engineering firm CECI, as well as Arup, Fei & Cheng Associates, Gillespies, The Design Solution, Fraport, OTC Planning & Design and BNP Associates. The project is aiming for a 2020 completion date, when the anticipated capacity of Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport will be 45 million passengers annually.