Airport Lounge Arcades Shaping An Intricate Design
The Turkish Airlines CIP Lounge has recently been opened at the Ataturk Airport International Departures in Istanbul – a feast for the eyes. Featuring intricate shells built inside the airport hall, the modern airport lounge was designed by Autoban. Daily, 2000 people can walk through the 300 square meter CIP Lounge. Designed ” to transmit the “Contemporary Turkey Experience” to Turkish Airlines passengers “.
Arcades and round skylights – some adorned with huge lights – create a stunning effect: “The main structure, established by making use of the traditional architectural arcade system, consists of a combination of global forms. These plain spheres create interior combinations by dividing the place into sections, allowing transitions between them.” The shells have different functions – restaurant, tea garden, library, movie theater or rest rooms – and provide a sense of continuation moving through the spaces. Details like the intricate pattern shells and light-pierced black channels hiding electrical systems and mechanic features in the merging points of shells make the whole design display a fresh, bold and welcoming design.
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Modern and Refined Passanger Lounge in Biggin Hill Airport, London
We recently ran across this unusual passenger lounge design completed by SHH Architects in Biggin Hill Airport, London (for private aviation group Rizon Jet). The project was developed on two levels and has a surface of 478 square meters (first floor), plus an attic space of 186 square meters. The customer’s brief implied a 6-star hotel lobby with a comfortable lounge feel: “The idea was to create a space where people want to spend time,” asserted architect Guy Matheson. This was achieved by using a simple and calm color palette, luxurious finishes, a significant amount of custom-made furniture, and a strong emphasis on comfort and convenience. The main space is a dramatic double-height volume, which is divided into two rooms with different treatments and variations in the levels of privacy so that customers can easily find an enjoyable space while waiting for their air fare. [Photo credits: Andy Spain Photography]
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Gatwick Airport, formerly London Gatwick airport, is the world’s 28th busiest airport, and until 2009, was owned by BAA, or British Airports Authority, just one amongst the many it owned in the south-east of England. Forced to sell after a government review came to the conclusion that one operator owning every airport in town was uncompetitive, the new owners turned to the experienced hands of branding consultancy Lewis Moberly.
The previous logo was, not to put too fine a point on it, pretty terrible — exactly as you’d expect from a monopoly. A confusing jumble of typefaces and type hierarchy, with an anonymous and generic mark, it looked exactly like an airport run by a conglomerate with no competition and no reason to try. The new type-based mark is but one step in the right direction, when perhaps a long haul flight was needed. Take away that tag line and one could be forgiven for thinking Gatwick is a toothpaste or a lady’s sanitary product. The curvy, signature-esque type seems entirely inappropriate for an airport, but it must be conceded that it makes sense from a strategic point of view. The new owners are doing everything they can to create a clean break from the past, and a less than stellar reputation amongst London travelers. But in trying to lose their stigma as a bad airport, the new identity loses all semblance of an airport at all.
Some of the imagery popping through Gatwick’s website.
From what little could be gleaned of the new identity in action, it appears the flowing curves of the logo are extrapolated out to the air stream of a jet in flight, and this stream creates the passing resemblance of a smile. Linking airports with smiling is a dangerous association to deliver on, and a feat to achieve. Indeed Sydney airport, courtesy of a repugnant idea from Frost Design, have resorted to inventing fake mental illnesses. So at least Gatwick has that going for it, it can’t be accused of inventing fake illnesses. However they are responsible for spreading other blights on modern society, fake tans and modeling competitions. Oh, the humanity…
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