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Hangar One in Arizonadesign by Tihany Design
Vernon Swayback & Partners
photos by Paul Warchol
text by Matteo Vercelloni
After September 11th, in America fear of flying has generated a demand for safer and more exclusive flights, far from the large hubs occupied by traditional routes and therefore organised according to new modes in smaller airports, with possibility to access in absolute privacy, where spaces and services of a higher level than those of a city airport can be found.
A new type of airport has then emerged; a sort of mixture between the atmosphere of a ?design? hotel and a private airport, very much widespread in the United Stated, but generally speaking meagre and austere, without any attention for the architectural image and its internal spaces, generally used by amateurs? clubs and 'week-end pilots'.
This new privately owned American airport, exclusive and rich in comforts, with a seducing architecture, just like the inner spaces it encompasses, where a traveller on a limousine can reach directly the stairs of his/her jet (private or leased) or be welcomed in the lobby by friendly and careful, elegant and well-mannered staff, as in one of the best Hotels of the new millennium, seems to be one of the most interesting new types in the whole country.
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