Frankfurt Airport
I repeat, which steaming pillock designed that airport?
Dear daedalus, this airport wasn't really designed, it just grew over the last 69 years. It wasn't possible to build a complete new terminal capable of the whole traffic in the late 80s, because of the US Air Base situated in the south. In the eastern direction it could not grow farther because of the Autobahn, and in the other directions there's a lot of forest which is protected. In the beginning of the 80s they had a terrible struggle over years just to build RW 18.
In some years some of these problems will be solved with the new Terminal 3 (will be build where the Air Base was located), but again sometimes you have to shuttle between the new and the old terminals.
Regards
hanx