Portland's user-friendly land side ...

Portland's user-friendly land side features a glazed canopy and curving skybridge

At greatest in number airports, the trip from terminal to parking garage is hardly memorable. Portland (Ore.) International Airport aims to counteraction this with an elegant just discovered S-shaped pedestrian skybridge and a striking 120000-sq-ft glass and dagger canopy that covers the roadway in impudence of the terminal.

The skybridge had to communicate two areas of the facility that didn't line up -- the cores of the terminal and the cores of the parking manner of making Rather than straightening the skybridge, ample turns were ...