Renzo Piano's Kansai airport has a mile-long high-tech terminal www.dezeen.com

Next in our high-tech architecture series is Renzo Piano's Kansai International Airport, which was built on an artificial island in Osaka Bay.
Japan's Kansai International Airport, with its asymmetrical clear-span roof and visible structure, demonstrates many of the movement's qualities.
Renzo Piano Building Workshop won an international competition for the airport in 1988, with a design that resembles a glider plane in plan.
The long terminal building gently curves, lifting in the middle and decreasing at either end, so that it doesn't interfere with lines of sight for the control tower.
Kansai International Airport was designed to function as a vast machine, transporting people from train or hydrofoil to planes and back again.