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Re: We are getting a new airport!!!

Posted: Fri May 31, 2019 3:02 pm
by normalthings
The garage is gone.

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Re: We are getting a new airport!!!

Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2019 12:30 pm
by normalthings
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Per Twitter: Terminal A is coming down

Re: We are getting a new airport!!!

Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2019 2:34 pm
by flyingember
Better view

https://twitter.com/BuildKCI/status/1136702329795764224

supposed to be starting below ground utility work sometime in August so there's 2-2.5 months of teardown remaining

Re: We are getting a new airport!!!

Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2019 9:13 pm
by FangKC
Demolition underway on KCI Airport's Terminal A

https://www.kmbc.com/article/demolition ... a/27798135

Re: We are getting a new airport!!!

Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2019 12:33 pm
by normalthings
A few photos that I found around Twitter.

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Skip to 2:10 to watch the roof collapse.
https://youtu.be/MRVho-KW54Y

Re: We are getting a new airport!!!

Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2019 10:54 am
by LCDSI
On the build kci website they have a slightly updated rendering on the top of the page.

Note the water fixture outside has also been cut from these renderings.

https://www.buildkci.com/

Re: We are getting a new airport!!!

Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2019 11:03 am
by KCPowercat
Good.

Re: We are getting a new airport!!!

Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2019 10:32 am
by cityscape
I cannot access the web cam anymore. Can anyone else see it?

Re: We are getting a new airport!!!

Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2019 10:37 am
by flyingember
cityscape wrote: Fri Jun 28, 2019 10:32 am I cannot access the web cam anymore. Can anyone else see it?
They never meant for it to be public so it was put behind a login. Someone leaked the URL. They wanted it on a delay for security reasons and couldn't do that.

I asked on Twitter

Re: We are getting a new airport!!!

Posted: Sat Jun 29, 2019 7:41 am
by KCPowercat
Dumb.

Re: We are getting a new airport!!!

Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2019 2:38 pm
by normalthings
Same designer as our new terminal.. Goes to show that money is everything.

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Re: We are getting a new airport!!!

Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2019 2:46 pm
by earthling
Hard to tell with a high level rendering but it appears the ratio of floor space to number of gates is lopsided toward far too much floor space.

Re: We are getting a new airport!!!

Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2019 3:25 pm
by KCPowercat
And who is paying. I assume AA or another airline is highly involved in ORD and wanting high quality in their hub. Here. Nobody cares.

Re: We are getting a new airport!!!

Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2019 6:24 pm
by TheLastGentleman
In an alternate universe, our airport would've been perfect for some sort of basic ornamentation to compensate for the lack of form. But, alas, modernism can never cope with low budgets, so all we get is a series of white and glass boxes.

Re: We are getting a new airport!!!

Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2019 12:59 pm
by horizons82
normalthings wrote: Fri Jul 12, 2019 2:38 pm Same designer as our new terminal.. Goes to show that money is everything.

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FWIW, that rendering is of Studio Gang’s winning design. Not SOM’s.

You can watch of what SOM submitted here:
https://youtu.be/8wKulkLYA8A

Re: We are getting a new airport!!!

Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:58 pm
by beautyfromashes
I can see why they lost.

Re: We are getting a new airport!!!

Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2019 5:01 pm
by TheLastGentleman
Honestly looks like a blown up version of ours. Big box, as is typical for SOM.

Re: We are getting a new airport!!!

Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2019 6:42 pm
by normalthings
horizons82 wrote: Sun Jul 14, 2019 12:59 pm
normalthings wrote: Fri Jul 12, 2019 2:38 pm Same designer as our new terminal.. Goes to show that money is everything.

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FWIW, that rendering is of Studio Gang’s winning design. Not SOM’s.

You can watch of what SOM submitted here:
https://youtu.be/8wKulkLYA8A
SOM’s O’hare Project is roughly 1.2 million SF for $1.4 billion. KCI is 1 million SF for $1.5 billion.

Below are SOM’s renderings of their O’Hare satellite concourse project. To me, it looks like a scaled up version of the KCI Project. Many features/amenities can be found in both (wood ceilings, Childs play area, large plantings, etc)
Let’s see how it ends up turning out.

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https://chicago.curbed.com/2019/7/8/206 ... gs-merrill

Re: We are getting a new airport!!!

Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2019 10:31 am
by flyingember
TheLastGentleman wrote: Fri Jul 12, 2019 6:24 pm In an alternate universe, our airport would've been perfect for some sort of basic ornamentation to compensate for the lack of form. But, alas, modernism can never cope with low budgets, so all we get is a series of white and glass boxes.
The 1% art project will hopefully help here.

Re: We are getting a new airport!!!

Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 5:00 pm
by normalthings
Structural steel and concrete slab foundations/concrete slab floor scopes went out to bid earlier this month.