A $340 million renovation, which is nearing completion, has made the terminal much more comfortable and modern, adding food courts and enlarging the lower baggage area.
"It's basically a Victorian-era system with a few modern add-ons," says Peter Hirsch of Retail Banking Research, a British consultancy.
Grillshack (Soho) All-day counter service grill with modern add-ons, including a smartphone app to join the entry queue.
Incidentally, in terms of listed buildings and conservation zones, an avowedly modern add-on is preferred by some planners and conservation officers, as it renders the older building more legible with the boundary between old and new easy to discern.
Page said there was a "slight positive" to be gleaned that the renovation offered an opportunity to integrate in a more aesthetically pleasing manner modern add-ons such as heating and cabling that had been bolted on over the last century.
Like most new retros, the Challenger is taller and heavier than its predecessor, thanks to some modern add-ons: airbags, stability control, bigger wheels and a longer wheelbase.
"We are the modern conservatives," added Kaczy´nski.
The reborn property "combines elements of your rustic mountain cabin, but is also very modern," he added.
Many had modern parts added when the originals wore out and new ones could no longer be obtained.
"It is meticulously researched... and makes us see the poet from multiple angles, in all his fierce contradictions, so sympathetic and so modern," he added.
