The Mother of all Airports

I decided to republish this post today, the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the historic Berlin airlift. I've added some extra photos.












Photos courtesy of "The First Post".

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The magnificent entrance hall of Berlin's Tempelhof Airport, which is due to close in October this year. A referendum of Berlin's citizens last Sunday, 27th of April '08, failed to get the required turn-out of 25%, so it looks like the closure will go ahead as scheduled. It's an awful pity, because it is truly a magnificent building, and has been dubbed "The Mother of all Airports" by renowned British architect Sir Norman Foster. When you enter through the huge doors and proceed to the check-in desks, you get the impression that you are in a cathedral, with it's high ceilings and polished stone columns. It was built in the late thirties and the airport as a whole is still the largest building complex in the world, and the terminal building is the world's 18th largest building. It is best known, of course, as the entry point for the Berlin airlift of 1948/49. Link to the Wikipedia article.


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