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ok I ve done a topic on bridges...and I want to make a thread on certain architecture elements or types of buildings... I like airports... its a nice kind of architecture where the artist can show his/her skill to make everything fit under a good space. do you like the john f kennedy terminal of TWA in NY? the concrete cobertures are awesome... I cant describe them due to my poor english but I like that airport... |
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The Kansai airport in Hong Kong is an impressive building, I saw a documentary about it on television! |
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The DFW airport is quite nice, once while I was waiting for a flight, I skateboarded around the whole airport and got back right in time for boarding. |
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There was an airport built on an island right off the japanese coast, is that the one you are talking about? |
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Here's the website... http://www.kansai-airport.or.jp/english/ |
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Yeah they actually built the island! |
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Yea, i saw something about it on the discovery channel or something. |
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Yeah that was probably the one I saw...they were showing how the building survived an earthquake, with not a single pane of glass broken!! Very impressive... |
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The strangest airport I have been to was Mahon Airport on Menorca. It was about 15 years ago (its probably not like it anymore), but at the time it was not far off a barn!! Hehehehe |
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the basel-mulhouse airport is the most fucked up construction i know... there are pieces of roads which leads to nowhere, lots of signs everywhere, you can't pass on the swiss side when you're on the french side and vice-versa (there seems to be no road that communicates between the two through the airport), and there are debris everywhere... yeah, it's under construction, so i guess this is normal, but still, this is an unforgettable place :) |
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I like those 'golf buggy' type vehicles in airports that they have to 'ferry' people around the terminals!! |
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uzim: that airport is still under construction? it was under construction when i was living there! and that was forever ago! i think we are talking about the same one, there aren't that many, so we must be. the strangest airport experience i had was the second i stepped of the plain into switzerland for the first time. there was this security/military guy with a scorpion sub-machine gun playing with the bolt on his gun. i ran. in canada the police carry glocks. i own a shotgun. machine guns are reserved for the military, and they don't stray off their bases. i was a little scared. back to the topic of architecture> i remember when pearson international added terminal three in toronto. it blew me away. i haven't been there in years althoguh, my brother just landed there yesterday. having a visit home from scotland for the ccanada day weekend! par tee!! |
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my sister went on a skiing trip and landed in geneva airport. They hung around the bar for a while in the late evening waiting for their bus to collect them for the ski-resort but he rang to say he'd be late. they then suddenly realised there weren't many people around and on further investigation they found the entire airport was shut and they were locked into the BAR!! After waving to security cameras and trying doors to no avail, they got quite thirsty obviously! $ hours later they found an "open" door, left and met the driver and arrived at the resort with serious hangovers!!! |
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I'm there all the time (JFK), amazing architecture, the outside is awesome (the big shells), and the inside is crazy, all these sloping walls where the floor just turns into the wall, and curves, and...well I can't describe it do to my poor english. |
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schiphol MUHUHAHAHA seriously, I have no clue. I've travelled with a plane only once so I don't have a clue wich airport has good architecture |
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the new detroit airport is really cool. it just opened about 5 months ago...it's huge, a mile long from one end to the other, around 100 gates. there is a great indoor monorail that runs the length of the terminal. the architecture is pretty impresive too. it's got a sleek, minimalistic look to it, with nice high ceilings. much better than the old airport which was a dump. |
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I kind of like the London Stansted airport (especially compared to the madness which is Heathrow). A lot of airports leave me claustrophobic, Stansted is especially tall and airy. |
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madrids airport is one of those I like less...better said..I think its really bad... boring arquitecture and not good functionalism |
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If you're unemployed and feeling unemployable... you can rest assured you can always get a job on an airport departure-lounge food court. I think the fact that you're imminently leaving the country, gives those morons license to treat you with whichever form of disdain they chose.. A) breakfast for £15 B) pink bacon and unchewable egg C) waiting til you're on the plane before remembering your order. I aint seen any 'interesting' airports yet. |
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SFO (specifically the Internation terminal at San Francisco International) is awsone. It was finished few years ago and cost $$2.5 billion. It is literally wedged among a bunch of other buildings that needed to be open 24/7 during construction. It was as hard to build as a downtown skyscraper. A beautiful building. Very Ae. |
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the one in Rekjavik, Iceland was pretty cool... I recall there being these long hallways with some futuristic dome windows... whatever that means... -mart |
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does anyone know if "Music for airports" by Brian Eno actually sounds especially apt when you're listening to it AT an airport ? Its interesting to know which environments different types of music seems to fit. |
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