Red Sea Terminal in Marsa Alam, Egypt

Filed by Max the Cryptid Reporter

Most airport terminals are designed simply to move travelers from one place to another. Terminal 1 at Hurghada International Airport attempts something more ambitious: turning the landscape outside into part of the building. Opened in late 2014, the terminal covers approximately 92,600 square meters across three main levels. Its most distinctive feature is the enormous elevated ceiling, whose flowing underside was designed to echo both the undulating Red Sea and the desert terrain surrounding H