Until recently they were programmed for growth: airports. It is not for nothing that they are always being built on. But the outbreak and spread of the corona pandemic brought the boom to a halt.
For the aviation journalist and book author Andrew Fecker airports are “expansive, highly complex facilities”, he writes in his latest work “Airports from above – Airports of the world from an exciting perspective“, which was published by Geramond. “Architects trump each other with daring buildings, elegantly curved roofs, slender control towers, because airports are flagships of the efficiency of a city, a region, a country.”
As a passenger, you can see one or the other angle of an airport from above when taking off or landing, but only from the side if you are lucky enough to have gotten a window seat. This is how Fecker came up with the idea of undertaking a change of perspective with his illustrated book. “My need to visually catch up on all these lost impressions can be caught up on in this book in a CO2-free and climate-neutral manner and I can enjoy it in peace.”
With the author’s explanations, “Airports from Above” becomes a standard work. Fecker also invites us on a trip around the world on the couch, because we can’t travel ourselves at the moment.
On the following pages of the photo series above we show some motifs from the more than 110 airports presented.
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