Stantec: Airports. Edited By Trevor Boddy; texts by Trevor Boddy and Stanis Smith. Figure 1 Publishing, 2017
For the past several years, Stantec has been an undisputed leader in airport design in North America and abroad, now reflected in a captivating new monograph, Stantec: Airports. As noted in its opening pages, every day one in three airline passengers travelling in North America passes through an airport that Stantec has worked on. This book, overseen by longtime Stantec senior partners Noel Best and Stanis Smith, is the first that the firm has published on their work. Edited by architecture critic and curator Trevor Boddy, with book design by Pablo Mandel, it features 12 of the firm?s recent airports across the country.
The Stantec of today?a multinational consulting firm with over 22,000 employees on six continents?is partially the result of a 2003 merger with the Vancouver-based firm Architectura, which specialized in airport design. But Stantec: Airports begins its covering several years earlier in 1996, with its design and oversight of the new international terminal at Vancouver International Airport. And bringing us right up to the present day, the book features the new Iqaluit Airport in Nunavut, which opened just last year. With half the featured airports located in Canada, the other half of the book showcases the firm?s work in other countries, among them Chile, the Bahamas and of course the US. One particularly interesting terminal, in Tijuana, allows travel...