Glass, steel and the memory of Hudhud

A view of the Alluri Sitarama Raju International Airport, at Bhogapuram in Vizianagaram district. | Photo Credit: KR DEEPAK From the air, the terminal at the Alluri Sitarama Raju International Airport in Bhogapuram resembles a fish. The roof runs as one long silver shell, ribbed into bays that ripple front to back like the gill slits do on the underside of a ray, and it flings out a pier to carry the aerobridges, so the plan reads like a fish: check-in in the belly, gates in the tail.The shape came from the sea. The reason from a storm. On October 12, 2014, Cyclone Hudhud came ashore at Visakhapatnam with sustained winds of 185 kmph, flooded the airport, peeled the roof off the terminal and smashed the radar. The building was patched back into service inside a week. Every choice at Bhogapu