Abstract | The fresh completion of Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) at Chek Lap Kok in 1998 has lanuched yet another heated wave of discussion of airport design by architects, recalling the exchanges that took off with the completion of Chicago's O'Hare International Airport in the late eighties and Osaka's Kansai International Airport in the early nineties. Upon the completion of Helmet Jahn's United Airlines Terminal at O'Hare International Airport. The article features the assemblage, modulus, rationality, and neutrality, network society and cultural code. Space of flows and resistance, inter-placement of the centre and the edge of a city are discussed. |
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