With the help of French architect Paul Andreu, the capital city of Indonesia, Jakarta, was given a brand new airport that was finished on May 1, 1985 and a lot of it had to do with the designing from Andreu himself.  This airport serves all people on the island of Java as well as the metro area of Jakarta.  It’s the 18th busiest airport in the world and the busiest and largest in southeast Asia. It is one of the most unique looking airports on the outside with the color orange all over as well as a really cool way of having one building connecting to three main areas where people will board to fly a plane.  It has a very great view of downtown Jakarta, which is about twenty minutes away, while the airport is in an area that looks more like the jungle instead of the very industrial looking urban Jakarta.

Another fascinating building located in Asia that was worked by Paul Andreu was the Osaka Maritime Museum located in Japan.  This was designed right before the National Grand Theatre of China, which I talked about in blog 6.  It looks like a large dome and it is actually above water, which adds a really cool aspect to the whole structure.  Also since the building is really shiny, when the sun is out the structure looks like it is literally coming out of the sea, which creates a really cool illusion.  The Osaka Maritime Museum started being built in 1998 and was done by the year 2000, so like most of Andreu’s work, it has been done in the last thirty years so all his designs are very recent and modern-like.

Another one of my favorite structures that Paul Andreu had the chance to work on is the National Grand Theatre located in Beijing.  The building that is known as the “Giant Egg” was finished being built in 2007, and they started working on it in 2001.  The National Grand Theatre is in a great location because it is very close to the Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden city, which is a very popular for people in the country of China to be at.  It’s very different from a lot of buildings in China and because of that it got a lot of controversy from Chinese natives, but Andreu wanted to bring more of a modern building that had water, lots of trees, and a lot of open space to compliment the existing structures in Beijing.

The Grande arch, which is in the city of Paris, is arguably the best work that Paul Andreu has ever done.  It’s 110 meters high and it’s 108 meters wide.  It was done in the 1980s and is one of the unique buildings because the design looks like a square but the whole middle of the structure is open for people to walk through, so it’s truly a sight to behold.  It’s one of the newest buildings in Paris since there’s a lot of older structures there like the building that everyone knows, the Eiffel Tower.