Chances for architectural greatness are rare. When they come around, we best grab them. Such is the opportunity Chicago has before it with one of the five plans for a new global terminal at O’Hare International Airport. — Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune architecture critic, Blair Kamin, comes out in clear support of the Norman Foster-led finalist entry to the $8.5B Chicago O’Hare 21 Terminal Expansion competition: "That plan, from a team led by London-based Foster + Partners architects, promises to be everything an airport should be: a precisely-honed machine for moving people and baggage; easy to get around intuitively; and an enthralling gateway to its city." Foster's joint venture team also includes Chicago-based architects Epstein and Moreno.
The other four finalist teams, announced last November, are Fentress-EXP-Brook-Garza Joint Venture Partners, Santiago Calatrava LLC, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), and Studio ORD Joint Venture Partners.
Previously: Questions raised over selection process for massive expansion of O’Hare International Airport
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Is the polar vortex over? Lol.
It would be perfect if it came in rainbow colors
In the Midwest we have choices of colors: grey, light grey, dark Grey and white. It was a scandal when someone painted a building red in Chicago. but color would be nice.
I remember the 60s-80s being more colorful. Houses were yellow, red, pink and blue.
Those colours were just the result of your personal Chem(ical) Ex(periments) ;-)
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