Above is the recently extended runway at Funchal Airport in Portugal. The original 1400m runway was notoriously short and, as a result, sometimes dangerous for landing planes.

The runway extension won the iabse’s ‘outstanding structures award’ and rightly so: due to an obvious lack of land, engineers have supported the extension on 180 pillars, each 70m high.

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