NAVI MUMBAI AIRPORT

The GVK-led Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) is finally on its way to being constructed. After innumerable delays due to several reasons ranging from land acquisition to receiving permissions, there is hope that operations at NMIA will begin by the end of 2019. City Industrial and Development Corporation (CIDCO) o icials have stated that by December, the first phase of levelling the Ulwe hill, NMIA’s building site, will be completed.

Nothing about what technology will be implemented within the terminal has been revealed yet, but we do know who is designing the airport. London-based Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) will design NMIA’s Terminal 1 and ATC Tower. ZHA is known for designing Beijing’s new Daxing Airport terminal, which is currently under construction. Past projects include Olympic Aquatics Centre in London, MAXXI Contemporary Arts Centre in Rome and Guangzhou Opera House in China.