In 2006, the city broke ground on a brand new airport: Brandenburg Willy Brandt Airport. It was a project which would swiftly become a civil engineering nightmare…
The Airport That Never Opened
Tag: Travel
Pull of Distance
You leave them dancing and sneak away. Everything has been said that can be said. You’re never going to forget each other. You’ll always be friends…
Power Stations of the Mind
I’d spent too many hours at the wheel, racing the December dusk to get to our destination before darkness fell. Too many hours scrutinising every junction, traffic lane and sign, of passing through new places and barely seeing them…
The Ghost Flights of Heathrow Airport
A plane takes off or lands at London’s Heathrow Airport approximately once every 45 seconds during its operational hours. Some of them are empty, and they are empty on purpose…
An Interview with Christine Donovan
Christine Donovan participated in the Heathrow Airport Residency in September 2018. We spoke to her about anarchism, parkour, and walking as a creative practise…