CANON EOS-1Ds MARK III The Start Using Day of the Beijing Airport Terminal3, February29 2008

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Beijing Capital Airport's spanking new Terminal Three opens this Friday. The Norman Foster-designed building is being touted as the largest building in the world. And it is colossal. To give you an idea of just how big it is, the terminal is the size of 170 soccer fields put together, and that is 17 percent more floor space than all of London Heathrow's five terminals put together! The terminal is shaped like the character 人 which means people, and its design reminds one of the dragon, complete with 'scales' oriented south-east to capture as much of the winter sun as possible.

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Size: 4800px × 3600px
Location: Beijing, China
Photo credit: © TianYin Li / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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