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CESAR PELLI'S GIFT: A CAPITAL GATEWAY; Striking Architecture Provides a Spectacle To Lift the Spirit
1997
Overview
With today's opening of the National Airport's new extension, the romance of air travel has again been given its architectural due in Washington. The new building has lots of modest virtues -- it is easy to get to and get around in, clear where many airports are confusing, colorful where they are gray, light where they are dark. Yet its lasting allure will always be based on the big, elongated interior with the double row of domes, the well-integrated artworks and, most important, a high, transparent wall that echoes the 1941 original, and is a great deal longer. The package may not be perfect, but it sure is a swell improvement on what we had -- and on airport design standards in general. In sum, the great gift that architect Cesar Pelli gave here -- over and above the efficiency of the new terminal -- is his awareness that airports are public places. And his conviction -- along with that of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority -- that this is something architects must honor in every way they can.
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WP Company LLC d/b/a The Washington Post
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