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Five trends for airport retail

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Once relegated to tired sundries and souvenir shops, airport retail is literally cleared for takeoff. With a projected growth of over 70% in the next four years, it’s one of the fastest growing segments in retail.

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First photos inside the nearly completed Jewel Changi Airport addition

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With features like an indoor forest, the world’s tallest indoor waterfall, treetop walking trails, retail (a retail galleria will feature more than 280 retail and food and beverage outlets and a 130-room hotel), and gathering spaces, the 1.4

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Moshe Safdie wants to reinvent airports with Jewel Changi Airport addition

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Moshe Safdie’s Jewel Changi Airport is a planned addition of 1.4 million sf to Singapore’s Changi Airport, Dezeen reports. This project redefines and reinvents what airports are all about,” Boston-based Safdie told Dezeen. Airports Architects Building Owner Contractors Designers Engineers Facility Managers Building Team'

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Missing link: Denver International Airport and Transit Center

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This swooping, bird-in-flight, steel-and-glass building is the realization of Denver International Airport’s 1989 master plan to build a public transit center connecting the city’s RTD commuter rail line to the airport. .

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The Weekly show: Curtis Fentress, FAIA, on airport design, and how P3s are keeping university projects alive

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The state of airport terminal design amid COVID-19. • Retail planning after the pandemic. . This week on The Weekly, BD+C editors spoke with leaders from Fentress Architects, Interface Studio, Ninigret Partners, and Rockford Construction on three timely topics: . • How P3s are keeping university projects alive.

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The future of travel retail

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Travelers are stuck in the airport for hours at a time. For retailers, that means a rare, captive audience not often found outside airport walls. It’s an opportunity to give travelers what they want—local food options, the chance to try on new makeup or souvenirs from local artisans and artists.

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$1.5B Denver airport expansion underway

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The project will increase gate capacity by 30% and add retail, food and other passenger amenities.

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