Wells Cathedral has a square terminal to the choir, as is usual, and like several other cathedrals including Salisbury and Lichfield, has a lower Lady Chapel projecting at the eastern end, begun by Thomas Witney in about 1310, possibly before the chapter house was completed.
The proposed three-story, 30,000-square-feet terminal will be built half a mile north of the present terminal and adjacent to a future stop on NJ Transit's Hudson-Bergen Light Rail line.
In December 2000, San Francisco International opened a 2.5-million-square-foot terminal with great fanfare.
The amount of retail space in the 200,000-square-foot terminal will not only affect its character but could potentially drain life from the surrounding streets.
Officials said the renovation to the 1 million-square-foot terminal was needed to help the airport compete with airports like San Francisco International as demand surges for trans-Pacific travel.
Last week, the airport opened its new $1.2 billion, 1.5-million-square-foot Terminal 4, an international-arrivals complex that has four city blocks of shops and more than a dozen restaurants.
On the Allure, check-in was extraordinarily fast thanks to the huge new 5.5-acre, 240,000-square-foot terminal that Royal Caribbean built in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in 2009 to make sure that the thousands of passengers moving on and off the Oasis and the Allure would be able to go "from curb to stateroom in 15 minutes".
Over a million square feet of terminal space will be added to the airport.What does all this mean for business travellers?
The harbor was framed square by the terminal's red brick buildings, and the waves, every fourth or fifth one a whitecap, were blue-green and sharp, as if edged with Spackle.
But city officials cast a vote of confidence on Monday in the future of Los Angeles International Airport, awarding contracts for a major overhaul of the airport's international travel facilities, including adding more than one million square feet of terminal space.
