Come on, crowd, CDG T1 (located in Roissy en France, not Paris btw., if you ever have to program a car navigation to get you there ) is an architectural masterpiece of the later 60s and mid 70s.

Opened in '74 T1 still, more than 30 years later, is a postmodern structure of incontestable beauty for anyone who sees architecture as a looking glass of contemporary history. I travel to CDG two to three times a month and each time I go there (Sat. 6 on LH, most of the times) I am stunned again by this momument of the "grande nation's" achievements.

Of course the satellite concept is antiquated, the automated walk ways often don't work and driving an S class mercedes through the cramped and narrow driveways of T1's structure is a real pain in the a**.

But I salute Paul Andreu for this, his first of many masterpieces including Beijing's new opera house, the Grande Arche of La Defense and many, many airport terminals throughout the world, though I regret that CDG 2E was one of his not so fortunate designs as one could witness last May.