Building the World's Largest Airport in Record Time | Blueprint

Beijing is building the world's largest airport at an unprecedented pace to solve its air travel crisis. Designed by the visionary Zaha Hadid, the Beijing Daxing International Airport is engineered to handle an incredible 100 million travelers each year. This episode explores the cutting-edge technology and brilliant design that made this possible, and reveals how engineers looked to the past for inspiration, from ancient Greek earthquake-proof buildings to the crowd control genius of Grand Central Terminal.

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