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FEATURES | AIRPORT DESIGN<br />
WHAT FRANZ JOSEF STRAUSS AIRPORT, MUNICH<br />
BUILT 2004<br />
As one might expect from the city that produced the<br />
elite engineering of BMW, Munich’s Airport Centre has<br />
an effi ciently excecuted answer to airport planning.<br />
Designed by Helmut Jahn, who also created Bangkok’s<br />
dramatic Suvarnabhumi Airport, the airport’s massive,<br />
vaulted glass roof overlays a central courtyard,<br />
combining terminals 1 and 2 into a unique space with<br />
generous civic character, reminiscent of grand, 19thcentury<br />
railway terminals.<br />
76 | TRAVELLER<br />
With its massive vaulted glass<br />
roof, it is reminiscent of grand,<br />
19th-century railway terminals
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