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Basra Airport
Location
Basra
Country
Iraq

Architect/Engineer/Team
(Team) J. M. Wilson & H. C. Mason

Construction
1935/1938

Project Status
Built
Building Type
Airport

Notes
Basra airport is an example of a new architectural type introduced into the region at the time, and one of the most important airports for its time, inaugurated by King Ghazi. The interior designers came from Paris.
Sources

World Architecture A Critical Mosaic, Middle East, Vol. 5, p. XXIII

Shirin Ihsan Shirzad, Lammahat min Tarikh al-Imara (wal harrakat al-mimaria wa ruwadaha), Dar al-Shuun al-Thaqafi al-Amma, Baghdad, 1987, p. 136

Caecilia Pieri & Khaled Sultany

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Watercolor by J. M. Wilson
Source: Wilson & Mason brochure