24 July 2010 | Posted inBlog News & Updates
Challenging Airport Design
We’ve talked before about HOK’s aviation group (Indianapolis Airport, New Doha International Airport, National Air & Space Museum), so when I saw this article on crazy airports, I had to share: Enjoy Your Fright: The World’s 10 Scariest Airports. The article shares fantastic photos and descriptions of each of the “ten scariest airports.” I’ve included some of my favorites from the article below.
Most of my flights are to pretty major airports, most of which are not so scary; however, there are definitely days flying to Washington Reagan National Airport (DCA) that I’m concerned we might land in the Potomac River, or when I’m riding my bike past, that a plane might land on my head.















The landing into SFO is somewhat hair-raising too, since the approach is over the SF Bay; till the last minute you feel like you’re doing an unscheduled water landing! Like someone said, ‘I like my terra firma, the more firma it is, the less terra I have!’