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Airports from above: Satellite images reveal the complexity of the 'bones, muscles and nerves' of international air hubs

20:25 • 09.07.14
Airports from above: Satellite images reveal the complexity of the 'bones, muscles and nerves' of international air hubsScience/tech

The images were taken from Google Maps by art director Lauren O’Neill for her blog Holding Pattern, according to the Daily Mail.

She was inspired by the ‘systems of design at play’ which she has spotted at airports around the world. Satellite shots reveal the sprawling nature of airports including London's Heathrow, Zurich, Wellington and JFK Uniform patterns resemble the inner workings of the human body - from muscles to nerves and even teeth.

Brooklyn-based art director Lauren O'Neill collected satellite shots of global airports after she was inspired by the 'systems of design at play' spotted as she travelled the world. The images reveal the complex beauty of these sprawling behemoths and as flights keep cities connected, the airports resemble connections in the human body. For example, this aerial shot of Zurich airport looks like muscles stretched over a skeleton
 

Elsewhere, the clinical look of Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport and planes, captured from above, resembles strips of veins and nerves. It is located seven miles (11 km) south of the central business district of Atlanta, Georgia and has been one of the world's busiest airports since 1998. Many of the one million flights that take off and land are domestic flights
 

The markings painted onto the runways of Wellington International Airport (pictured) resemble the lines drawn on cosmetic surgery patient's skin. Dotted white lines are cut through with solid yellow markings that show where planes park, turn around and take off from. Its close proximity to one of its car parks is visible in the top right-hand corner
 

Although many airports in the collection feature parallel and straight lines, Newark Liberty International Airport stands out because of its curved design. It straddles the municipal boundary between Newark and Elizabeth in New Jersey. As a result, the airport is owned by the city of Newark but operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
 

The Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport features a mixture of curves and straight lines and looks like a graphic created using a Spirograph. It is the main hub and maintenance base for the Iberia airline, which is responsible for more than 60 percent of Barajas' traffic. Following the death of former Spanish Prime Minister, Adolfo Suárez in March, Madrid-Barajas was renamed Aeropuerto Adolfo Suárez, Madrid-Barajas
 

John F. Kennedy International Airport (pictured) was originally called Idlewild Airport after the golf course it was built on. It was designed to relieve LaGuardia Airport in Queens, which was crowded soon after opening in 1939. Over seventy airlines operate out of JFK and it is the base for JetBlue Airways
 

Aerial shots of Logan International Airport (pictured) make it look more like an intersection on a road, than an airport. Its parallel runways resemble arm and leg bones, and the airport is situated next to the port in Boston, Massachusetts
 

While many of the airports are a wash of oranges, blacks and greens, London Heathrow (pictured) looks almost clinical with its solid white and grey hues. The planes appear to camouflage into the runways, and even the terminal buildings are a discreet silver colour. The uniform positioning of the planes resemble teeth. Heathrow is the fifth busiest airport in the world, in terms of passenger traffic, handling more international passengers than any other airport around the globe
 

O. R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg (pictured) is one of the darkest images in O'Neill's collection. It is also the only one to show clouds above the runways. The airport is one of the few in the world that has non-stop flights to six inhabited continents, others include Dubai International Airport, Abu Dhabi International Airport and Doha International Airport
 

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