Terminal 5 Heathrow
Subscribe now to instantly view this image
Subscribe to the Architects’ Journal (AJ) for instant access to the AJ Buildings Library, an online database of nearly 2,000 exemplar buildings in photographs, plans, elevations and details.
Already a subscriber? Sign in
Global hub for British Airways at Heathrow Airport, designed to handle 35 million passengers a year
The main terminal is a long-span ‘envelope’ with a flexibility of internal space conceptually similar to that of the practice’s much earlier design for the Pompidou Centre in Paris.
Departure and arrivals areas, check-in desks, commercial space, retail, offices, passenger lounges, back-up and other facilities are all contained within freestanding steel-framed structures inside the building and can be dismantled and reconfigured as future needs change.
The multi-level scheme is contained beneath a curved floating roof, supported by slim columns at the perimeter edges. Passengers depart and arrive in a terminal building which offers generous spaces and views across the airport.
Data
- Begun: Sep 2002
- Completed: Mar 2008
- Floor area: 371,520m2
- Sector: Transport
- Total cost: £43M
- Address: Heathrow Airport, London, TW6 2, United Kingdom
Materials 
Professional Team
- Architect: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
- Project architect: Richard Rogers
- Client: BAA
- Production architect: Pascall + Watson Architects
- Retail architect: Chapman Taylor
- Rail architect: Populus
- Artificial Lighting Consultant: Speirs and Major
- Landscape architect: Hyland Edgar Driver
- Structural engineer: Arup
- Facade engineer: Arup Facades
- Civil engineer: Mott MacDonald
- Services engineer: DSSR
- Services engineer: Arup
- Construction manager: Laing O'Rourke
- Construction manager: Mace
- Construction manager: Balfour Beatty
- Construction manager: Amec
- Quantity surveyor: Turner and Townsend
- Quantity surveyor: E C Harris
