Edinburgh Airport

Tower

Built 2004-05

A new air traffic control tower  is due to open at Edinburgh Airport on 7 November 2005.  It is 57 meters high and cost £11m.

It is expected that the tower will allow mort flights into and out of Edinburgh Airport, so enabling passenger numbers using Edinburgh Airport to soon overtake the numbers using Glasgow Airport.

The tower recently won an  architectural award in the annual Building and Engineer Awards: 

'The Commercial / Retail Building of the Year'.

Edinburgh Evening News  5 November 2005, p.15. and other reports.

 

 

  

 

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