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Gensler's new San Diego airport terminal is a pale imitation of Eero Saarinen's Dulles.
What constitutes plagiarism in architecture? Is Philip Johnson's Glass House a Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe knock-off, an homage, or the logical development of an idea? Whatever the inspiration, the resemblance is unmistakable.
The new terminal at San Diego International Airport, which opened in January, poses the same difficult questions due to its resemblance to Eero Saarinen's iconic Dulles Airport (1962) outside Washington, D.C. Given the typical banality of contemporary airport design, San Diego is lucky to have this sleek new...