At 11:30 PM 7/30/2003 +0000, Bill Hough found a news article: >After the TWA Terminal, Saarinen designed Dulles International Airport in >Chantilly, Va., creating innovations still in use today, such as "moving >lounges" that bring passengers from the terminal directly to the plane to >minimize walking. > >Saarinen, who also designed the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, said he >considered Dulles "the best thing I have ever done," according to >historical accounts. Dulles has changed a lot, even in the six years I've lived in the DC suburbs, but I wonder if Saarinen would be as proud of Dulles today. They still use some "moving lounges" today, but most of the traffic comes through two (or four, depending on how you count!) mid-field terminals. The land-side gates in the base of Saarinen's terminal at Dulles are mostly gone. The ticketing lobby of the terminal is still a spectacular sight, but I don't think I've ever been in it when there wasn't some kind of renovation construction going on! I suppose the changes at Dulles might actually reassure NYers anxious about renovating the TWA Terminal: you can update a spectacular building without killing it. Lord knows, air travel today isn't at all what was expected forty-five years ago. Nick