How airports took off
From BBC World Radio: Airports: at their most basic level places to fly from to reach destinations near and far. […]
9 / 11
On 11 September 2001, I was woken up by an earthquake. At around 7:10 am local time, the clothes […]
Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport
I stumbled upon a fascinating article by Chris Sloan at CNN Travel about this mid-century gem of an airport. Originally […]
Remembering Helmut Jahn – Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport
Chicago’s postmodern architect With great sadness I learned of the news of Helmut Jahn succumbing to a fatal bicycle accident […]
Flying in the Age of Corona
One Night in Bangkok A few weeks ago, in March 2021, I had a flight to Bangkok. Oh how the […]
SOM – Skyscrapers and Hajj Terminal
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill SOM to me is equivalent with captivating skyscrapers in the USA and Asia. But I started […]
If you’re going to San Francisco….
…. be sure to wear flowers in your hair I recently had a four night San Francisco layover. Usually that […]
The Sentimental Flyer
– The featured image depicts my last flight from Kansai Airport on 19 March 2020, right before the lockdown – […]
Denver
Contextual Regionalism In autumn 2012, I made a pilgrimage to Denver for an interview with the architect of the new […]
Art in Airports
Art! During a London layover in 2002, I went to see the West End play Art by Yasmina Reza. That […]
Space-Junk / Junk-Space
Space-Junk Have you seen Wall-E? The 2008 Pixar movie about the little waste allocation and load lifter earth class robot […]
Berlin calling!
It’s a miracle! It opened! Berlin Brandenburg Airport 2.0 In July 2013, when I was a at the beginning of […]
The Aerotropolis
The American economist and academic John Kasarda coined the term Aerotropolis around the Millennium, to specifically depict the arising economic structures […]
Of Dreams and Houses
Home There’s no place like home. Just three clicks with her ruby slippers will return Dorothy home from Oz. The […]
The Jewel
The Jewel at Singapore Changi Airport is a new crystalline event space that connects the three terminals together. Inaugurated in […]
LAX – Tom Bradley International Terminal
The featured photograph shows the iconic Tom Bradley International Terminal with its roof alluding to the Pacific Ocean – the […]