http://www.flickr.com/photos/7830239@N06/tags/night/ Thu, 04 Oct 2012 04:26:27 -0700 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 04:26:27 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/ http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8325/buddyicons/7830239@N06.jpg?1351594034#7830239@N06 http://www.flickr.com/photos/7830239@N06/tags/night/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/7830239@N06/8053214061/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/7830239@N06/">johey24</a> posted a photo:</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7830239@N06/8053214061/" title="Kunming Airport"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8174/8053214061_729b02aa9f_m.jpg" width="160" height="240" alt="Kunming Airport" /></a></p> <p>Just a second tier city in China's &quot;wee&quot; new airport. From the security check in at Domestic Departures it is a mere 0.94 KILOMETRES to the farthest gate. The distance to the other way to the International Departure gates is about the same ;-)))<br /> <br /> As a whole, the building is supposed to represent / depict the hilly countryside carved into rice paddies reaching to the skies. The beams holding up these paddies (the roof) with the people walking about under the beams and roof in the airport symbolically says that China's economy has been held up by rice for a few millennia.</p> Thu, 04 Oct 2012 04:26:27 -0700 2012-09-22T19:54:14-08:00 nobody@flickr.com (johey24) tag:flickr.com,2004:/photo/8053214061 24.994771 102.741737 24.994771 102.741737 12578016 Kunming Airport <p>Just a second tier city in China's &quot;wee&quot; new airport. From the security check in at Domestic Departures it is a mere 0.94 KILOMETRES to the farthest gate. The distance to the other way to the International Departure gates is about the same ;-)))<br /> <br /> As a whole, the building is supposed to represent / depict the hilly countryside carved into rice paddies reaching to the skies. The beams holding up these paddies (the roof) with the people walking about under the beams and roof in the airport symbolically says that China's economy has been held up by rice for a few millennia.</p> johey24 china nightphotography light architecture modern night buildings gold colours creative facades noflash airports kunming yunnan modernarchitecture modernchina chinesearchitecture beautifularchitecture matchpointwinner chinarising yunnanprovincechina chinesecreativity architectureinmodernchina 48000ledlights yunnanairport mpt209