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Old 29th Nov 2011, 22:20
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I share your sentiments BHD2BFS. I flew in/out last week from/to GLA, and the architectural similarities between the terminals are striking. Both have almost iconic core terminal buildings (GLA - architect Basil Spence, c. 1965; BFS - architects (IIRC) Kennedy Fitzgerald, c. mid sixties). Both had lots of glass, with big, chunky but elegant roof structures. Now both have been hacked about with decade upon decade of piecemeal alterations and additions and desperately cynical re-orientation around retail (at least the new security search area at BFS gives you an uninterrupted view of all the old butterfly roof).

Sadly that's what much of air travel has become, a chance to sell people stuff. BFS arrivals hall gets no such treatment because 99% of people arrive and bugger off, they don't linger and if they do spend any money it's for a cuppa.
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