London, GB
Stansted Airport challenged all the rules of airport terminal design. It went back to the roots of modern air travel and literally stood conventional wisdom on its head. The earliest airport buildings were very simple: on one side there was a road and on the other a field where aircraft landed into the wind. The route from landside to airside involved a walk from your car through the terminal and out to your plane, which was always in view. Stansted attempted to recapture the clarity of those early airfields, together with some of the lost romance of air travel.
Status: Built
Location: Stansted, GB
Firm Role: Architect
Additional Credits: Collaborating Architect: Stansted Airport Ltd.
Structural Engineer: Ove Arup and Partners
Quantity Surveyor: BAAC & Beard Dove / Needleman, Currie & Brown
M+E Engineer: BAA
Landscape Architect: Adrian Lisney
Lighting Engineer: Claude Engle
