In September of 2011, I ~~plan on travelling~~ travelled the world in 24 days to visit, document, and experience some of the world's most interesting and unique airports, as part of my Master's Thesis in Architecture. This blog is a record of the many facets of my journey, and anything else that I feel may be relevant to it. The airport passenger experience is a story yet to be told in detail... and this is a glimpse of my attempt to do so.

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Aug 10, 2011
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[The steel columns] were endowed with a subcategory of beauty we might refer to as elegance, present wherever architecture has the modesty not to draw attention to the difficulties it has surmounted.
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— Alain de Botton, A Week at the Airport

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[The steel columns] were endowed with a subcategory of beauty we might refer to as elegance, present wherever architecture has the modesty not to draw attention to the difficulties it has surmounted.”

[The steel columns] were endowed with a subcategory of beauty we might refer to as elegance, present wherever architecture has the modesty not to draw attention to the difficulties it has surmounted.
”