Off at a tangent

This is when your brain stops working and your thoughts – intoxicated by pictures posted by friends who have already left for their summer break and are eager to share the beautiful sights they are beholding – wander off in completely non-work- related directions. Even the summer issue of this magazine seems to be following this trend of going off at vacation-related tangents. (Or perhaps I’m seeing holidays in everything now?) If we choose far away destinations to holiday in, we go there by plane. And this the first such tangent we drift off along. We discuss the difficulties and benefits of running an office in Poland with Carlos Lamela, the head of the architectural studio that designed Terminal I of the Fryderyk Chopin airport in Warsaw and celebrated the opening of Terminal II a few weeks ago, which was also redesigned according to its vision (‘Planes, Trains and Much Else Besides’.) Having left the airport, it’