Originally Posted by
jensdad
Some nice photos there, ara. Is it just me, or did airports just look cleaner and slicker in those days? My local airport, Newcastle, has had several extensions over the years. Each one in a totally different style to the last, resulting in an architectural shambles. Every airport I have visited with the exception of Kirkwall and suchlike is in the same boat.
+1
Although to be fair, the security considerations in Belfast in 1963 were somewhat conducive to good design
Fly BFS-GLA for something similar - a beautiful sixties terminal with a kind of scalloped vault over the main concourse, hidden by decades of poorly considered additions and extensions.
The terminal at Aldergrove was the handiwork of Belfast-born architect
Billy McAllister. His firm was also responsible for the terminals at MME, ABZ and LSI (which is, IMHO, one of the most incongruous buildings in Scotland).