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Project: The Story Behind the Facade

Carrasco International Airport

Season 1, Episode 2 • Documentary, 01-Jan-2009

Uruguay, a country with a flat, gently rolling landscape. The architect Rafael Vinoly was concerned with finding an appropriate form suitable for the airport site. "A distinctive style is secondary... but an airport also has something magical about it," says Vinoly. "It is more than the sum of its functions".

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Rafael Viñoly Architects
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Christopher Kappelhoff-Wulff director
Mic Thiemann director

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