New York architects [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] have completed an airport with a curved roof in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Called [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.], the project features a curved roof spanning over 365 metres.

Arrivals pass through a glazed mezzanine level before descending to
the ground floor and departures are processed on the first floor.

A public terrace and restaurant on the second floor provide views over the runway and concourse.

The airport is due to open next month.
Here’s some more information from the architects:
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RAFAEL VIÑOLY DESIGNS NEW CARRASCO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IN MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY
Rafael Viñoly Architects has designed the new Carrasco International
Airport in Montevideo, Uruguay. This is the firm’s first completed
airport and its largest project in Viñoly’s home country. The airport
will become operational in December this year.

The new terminal at Carrasco International Airport, which serves
Uruguay’s capital city of Montevideo, was created to expand capacity
and spur commercial growth and tourism in the surrounding region. The
design of the building emphasizes its public zones and amenities,
providing these areas with an abundance of open space and natural
light. Arriving travellers, for example, pass through a fully glazed
mezzanine level that helps orient them to the terminal space before
they descend to immigration, the baggage claim, and customs. A public,
landscaped terrace and a restaurant occupy the second floor, providing
sweeping views of the runway and the main concourse.

Rafael Viñoly Architects’ design elevates the public zones, both on
the fully accessible roadside departure hall and terrace and the secure
runway-side concourses, and houses everything beneath a curved,
1,200-foot-long roof. The gentle curve and low profile of this
monolithic roof help integrate the building into its site. The
exterior’s flowing lines and undulating geometry resemble the natural
landscape of Uruguay, making it not only an iconic architectural
structure, but a symbolic one as well.
Inside the building, arrivals and departures are separated
vertically: arrivals on the ground floor, and departures on the first
floor, with vehicular access roads for passenger drop-off and pick-up
servicing each level independently. An open atrium adjacent to the
street entrance opens the ground floor to the monumental space of the
main hall, visually and spatially linking the beginning and ending
stages of a traveler’s journey. The roof provides a canopy over these
access roads on the land-side of the building, and on the air-side it
opens up to give wide views of the airfield and countryside beyond.

In keeping with a long tradition of grand transportation halls, the
departures level is one large space. With glazing on all four sides and
thin structural supports, the roof appears to float above the building.
The departures level features the public concourse and the secure
passenger concourse; each is separated by the security checkpoint and
immigration control at the center of the plan. After completing
check-in and security procedures, departing travelers have access to
duty-free shopping and restaurants in the waiting areas. Four fixed,
elevated pedestrian bridges with articulating corridors, accommodating
a total of eight passenger gates, connect the passenger concourse to
narrow- and wide-body aircraft and provide access to the apron for
smaller planes.
“In Uruguay, friends and family still come to greet you at the
airport or see you off,” says Rafael Viñoly, “so this terminal provides
great spaces for the people who aren’t travelling as well as those who
are. The atrium, the main hall, the terrace, and the passenger
concourse make this a dramatic and welcoming place for everyone.”

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Posted by Rose Etherington from dezeen.com