JEFF STACEY

Architect

ICAO Critical Buildings

Sikuphe International Airport, Eswatini


The new airport is located near Mpaka in the Swaziland Lowveld. The ICAO Critical buildings comprise the Air Traffic Control Centre, the Tower, the Rescue and Firefighting facility. The tower housing elevator and stair in a triangular plan,  slip-formed reinforced concrete tube topped by a structural steel and aluminium clad canopy.  The fire station has a long low sculpted roof with the emergency control office at it’s head.


Completion 2010.






Tower cabin

Air traffic control tower and control centre

Fire and emergancy services station 

Emergency ATC Room