Three quarters of a million people are
in a plane somewhere right now. Many millions travel by air each day.
For most of us, the experience of being in an airport is to be endured
rather than appreciated, with little thought for the quality of the
architecture. No matter how hard even the world’ s best
architects have tried, it is difficult to make a beautiful airport.
And
yet such places do exist. Cathedrals of the jet age that offer
something of the transcendence of flight even in an era of mass travel
and budget fares. Here are twenty-one of the most
beautiful airports in the world.
