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The Airports are designed for everyone! What about the passengers?

United States Architecture News - Apr 07, 2016 - 17:23   5038 views

The Airports are designed for everyone! What about the passengers?

Why are airports built for everyone — the city, the airlines, the retailers — except for the very people who use them the most: the passengers? One answer is a current trend of airport architecture that evokes an airport’s region and cityscape, yet doesn’t get bogged down in the small details of the interior design. Read the proposals of top airport architects, and many of the words you’ll find could have been lifted from a travel brochure: “geology,” “prairie,” “landscapes,” “clouds,” “sun” and “horizon,” to name a few......Continue Reading

Top Image: Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport in Manitoba. image © Jeff Goldberg/Esto 

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