Parr provides Glasgow with East End Connection

Parr Architects has designed the new GBP1.4 million East End Connection linking Glasgow Airport's two terminal buildings.

Glasgow-based Parr Architects, one of only five UK architectural firms to be awarded 'Second Generation' agreements by BAA, has designed the new GBP1.4 million East End Connection linking Glasgow Airport's two terminal buildings.

The East End Connection formalises the link between T2 and the main terminal building with a tensile, six metre wide, single span lightweight canopy supported on four steel-clad nine metre high parabolic arches.

Bryan Munford, associate at Parr Architects, said, "The dynamic, sculptural design, set in a light and open environment, transforms a previously ill-defined space into somewhere much more usable by travellers.

Whilst it fulfils the brief to provide shelter for passengers crossing between the two terminal buildings, it also lends the space a more social and cosmopolitan feel".

The design includes entrances to both terminal buildings at either end of the canopy and also features a number of mature silver birch trees, planted in specially designed tree pits surrounded by seating, making the area much more amenable.

Said Mr Munford, "It may be a transitional space but, that aside, the East End Connection has become a much more passenger friendly environment that helps communicate some of the excitement of travelling".

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