Paul Mison’s random stuff that doesn’t go elsewhere. Is it microblogging, or microactivity? (Previously known as ‘tumblr is my sock drawer’, for reasons that are somewhat unclear.)Tumblr (3.0; @blech)http://notes.husk.org/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ld1izlyNep1qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Pan Am’s terminal at JFK is hardly the only relic from the age before mass travel that’s passing. The <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/a380spotter/3557799080/">Queens Building</a> (pictured by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/a380spotter">A380spotter</a>) at London’s Heathrow was <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8280021.stm">demolished</a> over the last year to make way for an expansion of <a href="http://www.heathrowairport.com/portal/page/Heathrow%5EGeneral%5EOur%20business%20and%20community%5EMedia%20centre%5EPress%20releases%5EResults/17f39e3b58504210VgnVCM10000036821c0a____/a22889d8759a0010VgnVCM200000357e120a____/">Terminal 2</a>.</p> <p>One point about that particular building is that it hosted an <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/39411748@N06/3685076041/in/photostream/">observation deck</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><span>On its roof were gardens and a viewing platform, which in 1956 became one of London’s most visited attractions. At one stage it attracted more visitors than Windsor Castle, Madame Tussauds and the Tower of London.</span></p> </blockquote> <p>(<a href="http://notes.husk.org/post/1323650616/queens-building">Previously</a>.)</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/2128952659http://notes.husk.org/post/2128952659Tue, 07 Dec 2010 04:26:00 +0000imageheathrowlondon heathrow airportarchitecturedemolition<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ld1ijwe39U1qz4vjro1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.doobybrain.com/2010/08/09/delta-to-demolish-the-panam-worldport-at-jfk-international-airport/">The PanAm Worldport</a>, a terminal at JFK (built when it was still Idlewild, at the dawn of the jet age). Sadly, it’s <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/05/nyregion/05jfk.html?_r=3&partner=rss&emc=rss">being demolished</a>:</p> <blockquote><span>The plan would entail the demolition of the smaller terminal, the PanAm Worldport, an architectural symbol of the 1960s jet age that has nevertheless been described as a blight on the airport by passengers and airline executives alike.</span></blockquote> <blockquote><span>Delta has long lamented the state of the Worldport, which it uses for many of its international flights, describing the space as unpleasant and unfit for its role as a gateway to the United States for international travelers.</span></blockquote> <p>(<a href="http://www.doobybrain.com/2010/08/09/delta-to-demolish-the-panam-worldport-at-jfk-international-airport/">via</a>, indirectly <a href="http://blog.flight001.com/post/999293552/puerto-rican-born-artist-enoc-perez-shares-our">via</a>)</p>http://notes.husk.org/post/2128838977http://notes.husk.org/post/2128838977Tue, 07 Dec 2010 04:16:43 +0000imagepan amidlewildjfkairportarchitecturedemolitionmodernismthe jet age