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The New Yorker Magazine article, Situation Terminal, offers a startling comparison of the democratic effect on the timetables and budgets of large building projects. I’m certainly not advocating the project-development process used in China to complete the Beijing Terminal 3, just highlighting the disparity. Another insight the author made, had me questioning my own assumptions about airport design:

Before I went to Madrid, I would have said that an airport architect’s most important task was to reduce the distance you have to walk to and from the planes. But, at Barajas, you want to keep going.

Like most people, I would probably complain of the long distances you need to walk from arrivals to exit, but who said that walk couldn’t be made so enjoyable you didn’t mind?

Posted by: Justin Knecht

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