Stantec: Airports
18/11/15 - 5:00 p.m.
Airport terminals have emerged as the most important public buildings of the twenty-first century. Stantec: Airports provides a behind-the-scenes look at a dozen of the most innovative contemporary airport terminals. One of the largest global design firms, Stantec’s reputation for creativity in all aspects of airport design began with an unprecedented string of terminals for Vancouver International Airport, which regularly tops public and industry surveys as one of the best airports in the world. Stantec: Airports from Vancouver’s Figure 1 Publishing includes their innovative design work for airports in Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Iqaluit, and Toronto, as well as for terminals in Santiago (Chile), Nassau (Bahamas), and Niagara Falls (New York), plus a border-straddling facility for San Diego–Tijuana.
Trevor Boddy (editor, texts author) is a Vancouver-based architecture critic/curator and consulting urban designer whose writing on buildings and cities have won the Alberta Book of the Year Award and other writing prizes, plus top awards for advocacy from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and AIA in the United States. Most recently, he is author of City-Builder: The Architecture of James K M Cheng (Images Publishing) and co-author of Glacier Skywalk (Figure 1).
Stanis Smith (concluding essay, editorial assistance) is an architect and executive vice-president at Stantec. Born and educated in Johannesburg, South Africa, he is an acknowledged expert in the field of airport terminal design and has provided the vision and leadership for Stantec’s award-winning airport terminal projects in cities that include Chicago, Edmonton, Nassau (Bahamas), Santiago (Chile), San Diego, Toronto, Vancouver, and Winnipeg.
