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The Middle of Nowhere Builds a Swanky, Modernist Airport

If you think the Saarinen-designed TWA Terminal at JFK Airport looks cool, then check out these images of a new airport building just opened in Mestia, Georgia. As you may be able to tell from the snow and mountains, we're talking about the country of Georgia here, not the US state. Mestia is in the Caucasus Mountains, on the northern border of Georgia nearby Russia, and apparently it's looking to inject a little life into its tourism with a fancy-dancy designer terminal.

The building, constructed in only three months, comes from the Berlin-based architecture firm Jurgen Mayer H. It's simply gorgeous and it reminds us of the Zaha Hadid ski jump in Austria. Of course it looks small and light enough to push around like a sled on that snow, but we're enamored nonetheless.

The only question now is...what is there in Mestia (aside from this airport terminal) to actually make tourists want to fly into it?

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