"below is the recently (2003) extended runway at funchal airport in madeira. the original 1400m runway was notoriously short and, as a result, sometimes dangerous for landing planes. the runway extension won the iabse’s ‘outstanding structures award’ and rightly so: due to an obvious lack of land, engineers have supported the extension on 180 pillars, each 70m high. on the last photo you can see what seems to be a car park that now lives under the end of the runway."

Submitted by stella - 2008-01-31 12:46:39
Channels - blogcadre
Tags - design architecture airplanes

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