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ZHA beats Fosters and RSHP to land £3bn Sydney airport

By 2019-10-30T07:00:00

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Source: Zaha Hadid Architects / Cox Architecture

Western Sydney International Airport will be built in Parkland City region

Zaha Hadid Architects has beaten Fosters and Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners to land the job of designing a new airport in Australia.

The UK practice teamed up with local firm Cox Architecture to bid the £3bn Western Sydney Airport project. They have now been appointed master architect.

More than 40 architectural teams tendered and five were shortlisted in the summer. International practices were expected to partner with a local firm.

The finalists were: Design Inc with Foster & Partners; Architectus, Gensler, SAA and Surbana Jurong; Cox with Zaha Hadid Architects; Woods Bagot with RSHP; and Hassell with Pascall & Watson.

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