Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
Yes, what does Norman Foster know about designing airports ?
Well at Stansted he was kept to the terminal. he didn't do anything about the runway - because it was left just as it was !
I'm no admirer of Foster's Stansted terminal building. What idiot thought unventilated toilets in the centre of the "adaptable" big cube would do anything other than stink out themselves and the adjoining areas. That's Architecture 1.01, Norman.
Oh, and he put the long term car park 3.5 miles away from the terminal - in a development put down in open countryside.
Er, because the prevailing winds are from the west?
Actually, if you look at an annual Wind Rose, the percentage bias is not nearly as much as is made out. If it really is an issue, shouldn't the UK's premier aviation facility have a couple of cross runways as well ?