ABSTRACT
Stansted is a pavilion-like terminal six bays by six, with each column (or cluster of four) on an orthogonal grid of 36m. In its single-storey, rather rectangular simplicity, the design owes something to the terminal at O’Hare Airport, Chicago designed by Naess and Murphy (later to become Murphy/Jahn) in 1962. Both Stansted and O’Hare share the Miesian architectural model of crisp cubes of accommodation within large sheets of glazing set behind a disciplined structural framework. It is perhaps no coincidence that both Payne and Foster share a respect for the undemonstrative example of O’Hare’s early terminals.
