Stansted Airport "challenged all the rules of terminal design"

Thirty-six structural trees support the roof of Stansted Airport by Norman Foster's studio, which is the next project in our high-tech architecture series.
At London's Stansted Airport, British firm Foster Associates, which is now Foster + Partners, turned the typical airport layout upside-down by placing all of the heavy environmental services underground, instead of on the rooftop.
Beneath the roof, which is supported by structural trees, the airport's main concourse is a large,