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- Title
- Airport Builders
- Author
- Marcus Binney
- Date
- Jan 1, 1999
- Price
- £50.00
- Stock code
- 31896
- ISBN
- 0471984450
- Abstract
- A detailed look at the growth industry of airports and airport design--from tarmac to terminal Poised at the junction of earth and sky, airports present architects with wonderful opportunities for flights of the imagination--as well as massive logistical challenges to overcome. This book provides a comprehensive and well-illustrated global guide to airports and their builders, with historical background, technical information, and instant access to a world of airport design possibilities and solutions.
Partners, London Heathrow Airport Pier 4a United Kingdom Foster and Partners, London Stansted Airport United Kingdom Tams, Martha’s Vineyard Airport New Terminal Massachusetts Von Busse & Partners, Munich Airport Passenger Terminal Germany William Nicholas Bodouva + Associates, John F Kennedy Airport Terminal 1 New York Aviaplan As, Oslo Gardermoen Airport Norway Aeroports de Paris, Charles De Gaulle Airport Terminal 2F Paris France Tasso Katselas Associates, Pittsburgh Airport New Terminal Pennsylvania Aeroports de Paris, Pointe A Pitre International Airport Guadaloupe Som, San Francisco Airport New Terminal California Aeroports de Paris, Sanya Phoenix Airport New Terminal China C W Fentress, J H Bradburn And Associates with BHJW, Inchon International Airport Seoul Korea Terry Farrell & Partners with Samoo and DMJM, Inchon Transportation Centre Seoul Korea Josef Rafael Moneo, San Pablo Airport Seville Spain Aeroports de Paris, Shanghai Pudong Airport New Terminal Shanghai China Manser Associates, Southampton Airport United Kingdom Von Gerkan - Marg & Partner, Stuttgart Airport New Terminal Germany Architectura and HNTB, Vancouver Airport New Terminal Canada Cesar Pelli & Associates and Leo A Daly, Washington National Airport New Terminal Washington DC Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners, Zurich Airport Airside and Landside Centre Switzerland
Airports are among the most complex and intensively used buildings of our time, designed for tens of millions of passengers a year and handling, largely unseen, huge quantities of baggage and freight. Speed and security are at a premium, and in the 1990s a much greater emphasis has been placed on fast public transport connections to nearby cities. As terminals grow to accommodate more passengers and planes, there is a constant debate as to how to reduce walking times to and from the planes. With many passengers also spending longer periods between flights there is a new emphasis on passenger comfort and a determined attempt to make airports attractive and exciting places to spend time in. Rarely has a single building type provided such opportunities for fine, adventurous architecture around the globe. The airport terminals of the 1990s are engineered wonders, filled with natural light from above and with glass walls providing panoramic views. Their majestic internal spaces are worthy successors to the great tin sheds of nineteenth-century railway stations. Engineering and architecture play an equal role in creating vast, soaring internal spaces, exemplified by the new island airport at Kansai, Chek Lap Kok, and Seoul Inchon. Many buildings consciously seek to suggest metaphors for flight with soaring roofs and steelwork suggestive of fuselages or even the struts of early biplanes. While some terminals carry forward the twentieth-century tradition of a universal international modern style, others seek to give architecture a sense of place. The race to build spans the globe from San Francisco and Vancouver to Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur. This book illustrates the latest work of leading world architects such as Kisho Kurokawa, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers and SOM. It charts the phenomenal success of specialist builders in the field, such as the worldwide practice of Aeroports de Paris, and examines the new generation of European terminals.
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- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Ltd
