Spanish soft machine: Madrid's new airport terminal is a highly expressive cocktail of political ambition and architectural ideas.(Madrid Barajas Airport)

From: The Architectural Review | Date: July 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Trudging at midnight along Gatwick's deserted corridors to board a six hour late flight to Madrid, it struck me that Gatwick epitomises all that is worst about the modern airport experience. The queuing, the disorientation, the anomie, the slog of physical distances, the lack of daylight and the endless shopping malls as a substitute for any kind of interior life. Doubtless Gatwick's designers and mood managers thought that a gaudily coloured carpet would alleviate the route march to the departure gate, but the effect was like putting lipstick on a baboon. In common with its ...

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