London-based international architectural firm, Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners (RSHP) has won the contract to build a new EUR 305 million terminal at Geneva Airport. The project – due to begin in 2012 and to take three years to build– will see a complete revamp of the airport and will include tearing down the current 1970s–built terminal.

The terminal – dubbed Aile Est – will have an area of 40,000sqm and will be equipped with six slots for jumbo jets. In addition, three of these stands will be able to split into two to accommodate smaller planes. RSHP was chosen by a panel of experts to head up the design for the new terminal, and will work as part of a team that includes the Swiss practice Jacques Bugna Architecture Workshop as well as Ingérop Consulting & Engineering and its partners Babel, Geos, EGC Chuard, Perrin & Spaeth, BA Consulting, and Assysytem.

In the past RSHP has designed a wide range of buildings, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris with Renzo Piano; Lloyd's Tower in London; Terminal 4 at Madrid Barajas Airport; and Terminal 5 at London Heathrow Airport.