#terminal 4

[nocternalrandomness]

A late evening thunderstorm moving off from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport

[blech]

Terminal 4 cutaway diagram, from the "heritage" page of Scott Brownrigg, the architects.

[jorge-martin]

Barajas, Madrid

[nobeerreviews]

“It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, ‘As pretty as an airport.” 

- Douglas Adams

[businesstravelbear]

Headed home.

BTB looks out at Heathrow airport. His room was only a few hundred yards/metres from the runway, but the walls and windows in his hotel were so thick and well-insulated that he never heard a thing! 5/5!

[nocternalrandomness]

Stormy Sky Harbor Sunset

[swtorfounder]

The Arbiter. Terminal 4.

[blech]

London Heathrow Terminal 4 planning diagram by Scott Brownrigg and Turner, from the SIGGRAPH archives:

The major use of computer drafting systems in architecture, so far, has been in the production of working drawings. The objective here is to reduce the cost and shorten the time required for this phase of the design process by increasing the productivity of drafting workers. Computer drafting systems are particularly cost-effective on large projects with high levels of repetition, such as this airport terminal building. GDS turnkey drafting system {Developed by Applied Research of Cambridge, in Cambridge, England; and marketed in the U.S. by McAuto}.

Previously.