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Three quarters of a million people are in a plane somewhere right now. Many millions travel by air each day. For most of us, the experience of being in an airport is to be endured rather than appreciated, with little thought for the quality of the architecture. No matter how hard even the world's best architects have tried, it is difficult to make a beautiful airport.And yet such places do exist. Cathedrals of the jet age that offer something of the transcendence of flight even in an era of mass travel and budget fares. Here are twenty-one of the most beautiful airports in the world.The book features:Wellington International Airport, 'The Rock' shaped like the dangerous cliffs of a local legendKansai International Airport, Renzo Piano's gigantic project built on three mountains of landfillShenzhen International Airport, a manta ray shaped terminal putting this booming region on the mapDaocheng Yading Airport, the world's highest civilian airport in the middle of the Tibetan mountainsChhatrapati Shijavi International Airport, rising from the slums of Mumbai like a Mogul palaceQueen Tamar Airport, a playfully iconic modern airport nestled in the mountains of GeorgiaKing Abdulaziz International Airport, the gateway to Mecca resembling a Bedouin city of tentsPulkovo Airport, mirroring the city of St Petersburg with bridges, squares and artBerlin-Tegel Airport, ultramodernity, 1970s styleCopenhagen Airport, an icon from the golden age of air travelFranz Josef Strauss Airport, sober and easy to negotiate, Munich's model airportParis Charles du Gaulle Airport, the brutalist icon that launched the career of airport architect Paul AndreuLondon Stansted Airport, Norman Foster's return to the golden age of air travelLleida-Alguaire Airport, a relic of Catalonia's early 21st century building boomMadrid-Barajas Airport, Richard Rogers and Antonio Lamela's calm, bamboo-panelled Terminal 4Marrakesh Menara Airport, a blend of 21st century construction and traditional Morrocan designSantos Dumont Airport, Rio de Janeiro's modernist masterpieceCarrasco International Airport, Rafael Vinoly's design inspired by the sand dunes of his native UruguayMalvinas Argentinas International Airport, echoing the mountains and glaciers of Tierra del FuegoJohn F Kennedy International Airport, Eero Saarinen's glamorous jet-age TWA terminalSpaceport America, a vision of the future in the New Mexico desert
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WLG Wellington, New ZealandKIX Kansai, JapanSZX Shenzen, ChinaDCY Dabba, TibetBOM Mumbai, IndiaXXX Queen Tamar, GeorgiaJED Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaLED St Petersburg, RussiaTXL Berlin, GermanyCPH Copenhagen, DenmarkMUC Munich, GermanyCDG Paris, FranceSTN Stansted, UKILD Lleida, SpainMAD Madrid, SpainRAK Marrakech, MoroccoSDU Rio de Janeiro, BrazilMVD Montevideo, UruguayUSH Ushuaia, ArgentinaJFK New York, USA90NM Upham NM, USA
