It can hardly be a coincidence that noonhas ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk ( is the only exception of this otherwise infallible rule), and architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs.