Date built: 1985-91
Approx. cost: £400m
Structural Engineer: Ove Arup & Partners


Famous skylight designs - letting in daylight a radical step forward in airport design


Major cantilever and structural clusters form the technological aesthetic


Concourse once airy and calm is overflowing with people and shops


Key Norman Foster buildings included in our Guide to London Architecture:

Albion Riverside, Wandsworth, southwest London
Asprey, Bond St, West End, central London 2005
British Museum Great Court, north central London 2000
Faculty Building, Imperial College London, Westminster, central London 2005
Foster and Partners Studio, southwest London 1990
ITN Headquarters, northeast central London 1990
Imperial College Building, London 2005
London Bridge City, south central London 1998
Millennium Bridge, east central London 2001
Stansted Airport 1991
Wembley Stadium Redevelopment, northwest London 2007

Stansted Airport architects : Foster & Partners

London Airport Architecture:
Building B8 - Heathrow Airport, London 1990
Ian Ritchie

Heathrow Airport Terminal 5, west London
Richard Rogers

Airport Architecture:
Edinburgh Airport
Barcelona Airport
Stansted Airport
Glasgow Airport
Prestwick Airport incl. Renfrew Airport photos



Stansted Airport images available upon request: photos 1280x1024 pixels, 72dpi

Contemporary Architects

Photos © adrian welch / isabelle lomholt

London Architecture

London Skyscrapers



World Architecture : e-architect - a guide to key buildings across the globe

Copenhagen Airport
Paris Airport
Hong Kong Airport
Boston Airport

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