![]() ![]() It was the culmination of a 4.3 billion project conceived in 1989, involving twenty thousand workers and some of the most heated controversies about the environmental costs of transport infrastructure in the United Kingdom. Alain de Botton, A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary (London: Profile Books, 2009), 112 pp., 8.99 (paperback)īilled as one of the most striking examples of airport architecture at the beginning of the twenty-first century, a building that, in language that is common on these occasions, would usher in "a new era of air travel," London Heathrow's Terminal 5 (T5) was inaugurated in March 2008. ![]()
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