{"product_id":"the-art-of-the-airport-isbn-9780711238411","title":"The Art of the Airport","description":"\u003cp\u003eThree 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd 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.\u003c\/p\u003eThe book features: \u003cp\u003eWellington International Airport, 'The Rock' shaped like the dangerous cliffs of a local legend\u003cbr\u003e Kansai International Airport, Renzo Piano's gigantic project built on three mountains of landfill\u003cbr\u003e Shenzhen International Airport, a manta ray shaped terminal putting this booming region on the map\u003cbr\u003e Daocheng Yading Airport, the world's highest civilian airport in the middle of the Tibetan mountains\u003cbr\u003e Chhatrapati Shijavi International Airport, rising from the slums of Mumbai like a Mogul palace\u003cbr\u003e Queen Tamar Airport, a playfully iconic modern airport nestled in the mountains of Georgia\u003cbr\u003e King Abdulaziz International Airport, the gateway to Mecca resembling a Bedouin city of tents\u003cbr\u003e Pulkovo Airport, mirroring the city of St Petersburg with bridges, squares and art\u003cbr\u003e Berlin-Tegel Airport, ultramodernity, 1970s style\u003cbr\u003e Copenhagen Airport, an icon from the golden age of air travel\u003cbr\u003e Franz Josef Strauß Airport, sober and easy to negotiate, Munich's model airport\u003cbr\u003e Paris Charles du Gaulle Airport, the brutalist icon that launched the career of airport architect Paul Andreu\u003cbr\u003e London Stansted Airport, Norman Foster's return to the golden age of air travel\u003cbr\u003e Lleida-Alguaire Airport, a relic of Catalonia's early 21st century building boom\u003cbr\u003e Madrid-Barajas Airport, Richard Rogers and Antonio Lamela's calm, bamboo-panelled Terminal 4\u003cbr\u003e Marrakesh Ménara Airport, a blend of 21st century construction and traditional Morrocan design\u003cbr\u003e Santos Dumont Airport, Rio de Janeiro's modernist masterpiece\u003cbr\u003e Carrasco International Airport, Rafael Viñoly's design inspired by the sand dunes of his native Uruguay\u003cbr\u003e Malvinas Argentinas International Airport, echoing the mountains and glaciers of Tierra del Fuego\u003cbr\u003e John F Kennedy International Airport, Eero Saarinen's glamorous jet-age TWA terminal\u003cbr\u003e Spaceport America, a vision of the future in the New Mexico desert\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Frances Lincoln","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44891910209765,"sku":"NP9780711238411","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/e9ef71f2-4c1e-44fd-9d7c-ab01014e4b1d.jpg?v=1767896887","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-art-of-the-airport-isbn-9780711238411","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}