Hong Kong’s main airport terminal was an attractive target for protesters—shutting down the city's only airport gained international media coverage quickly
THE MUSICAL adaptation of “Les Misérables”, originally a novel in which the author asks his readers to sympathise with the failed revolutionaries of early-19th-century France, is probably the most successful theatrical production of the neo-liberal age. The English-language version, which ran in London from 1985 until earlier this year, is the longest-ever running musical in the West End, and the second longest-running musical in the world.
Hong Kong’s main airport terminal, designed by Norman Foster, the world’s leading post-modern architect, has its own attractive qualities for protesters. As the city’s only airport, it could quickly cripple transport links to the rest of the world. And as such, a protest would gain international media coverage quickly. It also has very good public transport connections to ferry protesters quickly in and out.
But it is not the only building designed by Mr Foster to have housed protests. Hong Kong Airport’s design—wide open departure halls flanked by glass walls—was inspired by that of Stansted Airport, built in Britain earlier in the 1990s. He also used the same philosophy in a building for Cambridge University’s Faculty of Law, which looks so similar to an airport terminal that students joke he got the plans mixed up with those for Stansted.
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