Airports today are much more than gateways to cities, countries or continents. They have developed into city-like complexes and multifunctional systems, which while being set up to serve the needs of smoothly running air traffic, at the same time have taken on all the functions of a normal community: sleeping, shopping, work and leisure time [&hellip
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‘Airport Interiors’ provides essential background into the development of the airport business and the design of its interior spaces, whether it is through the masterplanning of circulation spaces or interior finishes. The book explains how the global airport market developed and why; who the main architectural influences are; and how interiors have made a commercial [&hellip
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Although airports are now best known for interminable waits at check-in counters, liquid restrictions for carry-on luggage, and humiliating shoe-removal rituals at security, they were once the backdrops for jet-setters who strutted, martinis in hand, through curvilinear terminals designed by Eero Saarinen. In the critically acclaimed ‘Naked” Airport,’ Alastair Gordon traces the cultural history of [&hellip
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The airport terminal, the most important building type in the world of transportation, is also the site of the most ambitious and innovative achievements in 20th-century architecture. From the timber runway used during the Wright Brothers’ first powered flight to modern glass-and-steel structures, from military buildings housing fighter planes to public spaces for both travel [&hellip
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Building Type Basics for Transit Facilities covers the essentials of designing transit facilities. Features innovative transit station designs, including light and heavy rail, airports, and cruise terminals. Presents numerous illustratrations with descriptive floor plans, diagrams, and photographs. Provides need-to-know information for getting started in this complex area… RECEIVE 10% OFF THIS TITLE WITH DISCOUNT CODE:
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Serving as gateways to the cities, train stations were the most important urban building developments at the turn of the 20th century. One century later this building mission is experiencing a fascinating renaissance. On a world-wide basis new facilities are emerging that need to fulfill various functions ? so very often they have to serve [&hellip
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