Thursday, May 10, 2012

Amazing Airport Terminals

  As we all know at the terminal , passenger purchase tickets , transfer their baggage and go through security. As a result of fast growing in popularity of passenger flight. There are early terminals build in the year 1930's to 1940's and most of them just imitate the popular art deco style architecture of the time. 

Singapore Changi International Airport Terminal 3 

This is the airport as amusement park. Singapore's three terminals are widely considered to be the most fun you can have in an airport, and each one has its attractions.Such as the nod with the newest "an automatic light modulation system" to give the whole place a soothing, even, slightly unearthly glow.

JFK Terminal 5, New York, NY 

Wellington Airport "Rock" Terminal, Wellington, New Zealand 

Opened last year, the Rock is a pair of egg-shaped buildings covered in copper plating that's designed to turn blue-green in the sea air. Inside, curving corners and geometric panels play peekaboo: the terminal packs double the passenger capacity of the previous terminal into the same space without feeling crowded.

Seoul Incheon Airport, Incheon, South Korea 

Seoul's airport were well-organized, efficient and relaxing. Well- Organized in such a way that in basement. Plants and flowers keep up the impression that you're in a showplace for Korea's melding of history, art and technology, and not just a mere airport terminal. And relaxing because of plenty places to take a comfortable nap. Moreover , there is also entertainment or an amusing Korean culture. One of it is You can take pictures in traditional clothing .

Leif Eriksson Air Terminal, Keflavik, Iceland 

It is made of  blond wood and volcanic-looking stone with big windows looking out on the dramatic Icelandic landscape. There's a lot more wood in this airport than you'll find in most terminals, and instead of being a design accent near the ceiling, it's on the floor, making the terminal feel much more natural and less sterile than usual.

Jeddah Hajj Terminal, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia 

The Hajj Terminal received the American Institute of Architects' 25-year award as a design that's stood the test of time: it is made of 210 open-air, white fiberglass tents which create a "chimney effect" that can cool the hot desert air by 50 degrees without expensive, hard-to-maintain air conditioning, accordingly the Architectural Record. The tents can contain 80,000 people, with flexible spaces devoted to very unusual activities for an airport terminal, such as changing clothes and ritual foot-washing.

Bilbao Airport Main Terminal 

Thi is known as "the dove," and it has Calatrava's signatures: sharply-canted curves and lots of light streaming through, and bisected by, ribs which resemble cables.

Carrasco International Airport, Montevideo, Uruguay 

Montevideo's airport terminal is a smooth dome, looking from the front a bit like a whale's mouth; inside, lines are smooth, clean and calm, with grand terraces overlooking the runways and arrival areas.

Madrid Barajas Terminal 4 

Designed by "starchitect" Richard Rogers. This is an unusually intelligently designed terminal: clear, color-coded signs group together directions for gates, and multi-level walkways reduce traffic on each individual level.

Marrakech Menara Airport Terminal 1, Marrakech, Morocco 

It looks like a Moroccan palace twenty-first-century style, with classic Islamic geometric and nature motifs inscribed into a giant network of concrete diamonds.

Denver International Airport

Baghdad International Airport 

 

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