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"Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly" They aren't all ugly,just functionality wrong: instead of being places for people to travel,they are parking lots for pl
by cosmodisk 6y ago
"Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly" They aren't all ugly,just functionality wrong: instead of being places for people to travel,they are parking lots for planes with the rest attached to them. No matter how beautiful the airport if I have to walk half a mile to the gate just to reach the stairs with no lift, it's a failed building already.
It used to be relatively cheap to build extremely beautiful buildings because labour was cheap.
Also,some cities have some sort of planning panel,where people can and do try to steer architecture certain way,so there wouldn't be pink windowless office buildings in an old town built 400 years ago and etc.But that's not in every city.
And the last bit is we just need to admit that the king is naked sometimes: there are shit architects and shit designers who, by some magic stroke of luck, ended up in positions that allowed them to create those awful things no questions asked.They wouldn't be allowed anywhere near anything creative related in an alternative world.
- HelloNurse 6y agoThat half a mile is needed for non-negotiable constraints, like the scale of airplanes (e.g. gaps between landing strips or fingers), the capacity targets (walking to board a plane is better than not flying at all) or the available space to add terminals (Heathrow is a good example). There are also practical needs, functions that follow the form, that are no less important than minimizing walking, like the convenience and cost reduction of putting a lot of travellers in the same huge terminal and if possible in the same huge hall, with one subway station, one customs funnel, and so on.