How DIA Ranks Among Travel + Leisure's Most Beautiful Airports
By Michael de Yoanna
Created 2010-01-21 11:00

By: Michael de Yoanna [1]

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How DIA Ranks Among Travel + Leisure's Most Beautiful Airports

DIA_Airport_Roof It's not clear whether Travel + Leisure magazine overlooked the ongoing ugly-or-art debate [2] over the big, blue Mustang sculpture before concluding that Denver International Airport is among the most beautiful airports in the world. "The product of a hasty sketch by Denver-based architect Curtis Fentress, who had three short weeks to cook up a design concept, the airport features a Teflon-coated tensile fabric roof---the world's largest when the airport opened in 1995---and looks like a village of giant white tepees," the magazine writes [3]. The publication names only one other U.S. airport---JFK in New York City. A few others on the list include Terminal 3, Beijing International Airport, China; Terminal 4, Barajas Airport, Madrid, Spain; and Kansai International Airport, Osaka, Japan.

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[1] http://www.5280.com/tag/authors/michael-de-yoanna
[2] http://www.5280.com/../../issues/2009/0906/feature.php?pageID=1737
[3] http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/worlds-most-beautiful-airports/1