The airport shown in a YouTube video thumbnail is the architectural design of Terminal 1 of Beijing Daxing International Airport (PKK) in China, not of a $10 billion Philippine airport.
In the featured photo of the Nov. 10 video by channel Asia Chronicles, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s face was placed on the right side of the airport’s image with the text overlay that reads:
PHILIPPINES $10BN AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT PLAN
A reverse image search on Google Lens leads to a LinkedIn post by Edward Voskeritchian on Nov. 10, 2015 with the same image of PKK.
The post quoted a China Daily article published on the same day, crediting the image of PKK to engineering firm ADP Ingénierie (ADPI) and architectural design firm Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA).
Further Google search reveals an ArchDaily article about the architectural design of PKK published on Feb. 5, 2015, one of the earliest sites that used the image.
The science and technology news site New Atlas also published an article with the same topic on Feb. 6 that year.
The image’s metadata extracted using InVID shows that the image was last modified on Dec. 2, 2014 and used Adobe Photoshop CS6 software.
ADPI won an architectural competition held by Beijing New Airport Headquarters in September 2014 to design the Terminal 1 of PKK with ZHA. The firm’s report on activity and sustainable development of that year featured the same PKK design image as one of its international projects.
An aerial view on Google Maps shows the same design of the PKK, which began operations in 2019.
The video has garnered 18,565 views, 255 likes and 19 comments as of writing. Asia Chronicles channel, the uploader, was created in August 2023 and has 21,800 subscribers. (IA)