The jet set

By Martin Spring and Martin Spring Martin Spring 2004-12-10T00:00:00

The extended departures lounge is refreshed by a vast window wall, invigorated by soaring slender columns and shielded from two floors of concourses by retail enclosures

Source: Photos by Edmund Sumner and Ralph Bensberg

In Zürich, a crack Anglo-Swiss project team including Grimshaw and Arup have used imagination and pragmatism to bring glamour back to air travel. Martin Spring takes a tour around the airport that is a bit of a departure.

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