This is Heathrow Airport's new Terminal 5 (T5) in all its glory.
The project has been five years in the making and is due to open - on time and on budget - on 27 March, 2008.
T5 has been jointly developed by BAA - which runs the airport - and British Airways which will become the sole airline operating out of T5.
silicon.com went along to see how the final preparations are going and to see how technology has shaped the building.
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1. anonymous
A friend of mine has been testing this new system. It took a dozen bags over 2 hours to get to their destination and when, in another test a 130 bags were put into the system, only 15 turned up at the right destination.
Something to be proud of indeed!
2. anonymous
Will the shiny new baggage carousel be the same as all others in that the usual idiots will blockade it by trundling up against it with their trolleys and the whole family in tow whilst those whose bags are already on the conveyor can't get near it?
3. Anthony Grisdale
Let's hope there is sufficient investment in the on-going maintenance and at a cost that doesn't drive the quality out. Otherwise things will not be 'World class' for very long. In my experience an all too familar story these days.