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  1. May 9, 1991 · Stansted, particularly the terminal building, is highly sophisticated constructionally. Here Colin Davies examines the chief elements one by one. Originally published in AR May 1991, this piece was republished online in April 2011 with the 20-year anniversary of Foster’s Stansted airport. The whole point of the design of the Stansted terminal ...

  2. May 17, 1991 · Stansted is the first. It is not surprising that its main author is Norman Foster who, with his love of flying and preference for bold, simple generative ideas, seems perfectly cut out to invent a new way of approaching flight. His proposal was based on two key propositions.

  3. Norman Foster's studio turned the typical airport layout upside down with its 1991 Stansted Airport, which saw the high-tech architecture style applied to aviation for the first time.

  4. Energy efficient, environmentally discreet within its rural setting, technologically advanced yet simple to use and experience, Stansted has become a model for airport planners and designers worldwide.

  5. There is a brand of logic within the Foster office ideally suited to the design of airports; identify the main human problem, invent a system to cope with it and pursue the result with ruthless rationality.

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  6. 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.

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  8. Aug 27, 2024 · “It really is one big pavilion,” was my first thought after I stepped off the transit system into the main terminal at London’s Stansted Airport after a recent flight. Designed by Norman Foster and opened in 1991, the terminal is heralded as prime example of the “ high-tech architecture ” style that Foster and others embodied in the ...