18 August 2010
Banjul International Airport in The Gambia featured in The Observer on Sunday in an article by Rowan Moore entitled “The 10 best airports” alongside other renowned architectural designs such as Santos Dumont in Rio de Janeiro, Dulles Washington DC, Kansai Osaka, Charles de Gaulle in Paris and Changi in Singapore.
Journalist Rowan Moore says of Banjul Airport:
“Banjul Airport, Gambia, wins a prize for its sheer indifference to all the usual clichés and conventions of airport design. True, it goes like many others for something a bit wing-like, but the gratuitous projections at its sides are nothing like the swoops of Saarinen or Piano. It also goes, for no particular reason, for an arch in its centre with a bigger inverted arch above. A tongue-like canopy then sticks out from the mouth-like arch. The work of the Senegalese Pierre Goudiaby Atepa, its main design principle would appear to be to do stuff for the sheer hell of it.”
To read the article in full visit The Guardian website: www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/aug/15/10-best-airports-rowan-moore#history-link-box
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