The Race to Save Japan's $21BN Floating Airport

It's one of the world's most impressive airports. Located in Osaka, Japan, this engineering marvel is none other than Kansai International Airport. Opened in 1994, it was built on an immense artificial island.
With over 30 million passengers in 2019, the airport is today an essential gateway for national and international air traffic. It will be Osaka's showcase and gateway in 2025, when the Japanese city hosts the next World Expo. However, from its construction to its recent renovation, this infrastructure has always had to reinvent itself to avoid disappearing, between the risks of sinking and financial problems... A turbulent history that is far from over, as we'll see today, in this new episode of Looking 4.

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Script : Guillaume Fournier

00:00 Kansai International Airport: a threatened infrastructure
00:56 Construction history of the floating airport
04:10 Why the airport is sinking
05:11 The terminal by Renzo Piano
05:45 An exorbitantly expensive project
06:46 The threat of natural disasters
07:23 Hong Kong and Kobe airport construction
07:40 The airport expansion project
08:20 Privatization of Kansai and Kobe airports
09:24 Kansai Airport under water
10:08 Renovation work in progress
10:50 Osaka World Expo
11:05 The new luxury airport

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