As the late, great Douglas Adams wrote in his novel The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), "Airports are ugly." Some, he continued, "are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be obtained through special effort." Airport archi-tects seek, he added, "wherever possible to expose the plumbing on the grounds that it is functional, and conceal the loca-tion of the departure gates, presumably on the grounds that they are not."
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