Four major art projects for new KCI terminal revealed

[Donger]

Originally Posted by cosmo20002

I was fine with the old shitty airport where I could be on the plane, and then one minute later be outside of the terminal.

Yep. At DEN, it's a good 25 minutes from getting off the plane until you're in your car.

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by cosmo20002

I was fine with the old shitty airport where I could be on the plane, and then one minute later be outside of the terminal.

Yeah, it's pretty easy. But at least now we can have out of towners say stuff like "Wow, this airport has convinced me KC is a first rate city!" and "They had a PF Changs, this is truly amazing!"

[KCUnited]

Dammit, more walking required

[-King-]

Originally Posted by cosmo20002

I was fine with the old shitty airport where I could be on the plane, and then one minute later be outside of the terminal.

It is a great airport when everything is running correctly. But it's the worst place to be when you're early, there's a delay or there are long lines or anything like that. Being early at MCI is ****ing torture. I'd almost rather risk missing my flight and show up as late as possible than show up early and have to sit in the gate where there's one 2 stall bathroom and your choices of food are almost expired cold cuts or snack foods.

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by -King-

It is a great airport when everything is running correctly. But it's the worst place to be when you're early, there's a delay or there are long lines or anything like that. Being early at MCI is ****ing torture. I'd almost rather risk missing my flight and show up as late as possible than show up early and have to sit in the gate where there's one 2 stall bathroom and your choices of food are almost expired cold cuts or snack foods.

The two "restaurants" in the old airport were a disgusting joke.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by -King-

It is a great airport when everything is running correctly. But it's the worst place to be when you're early, there's a delay or there are long lines or anything like that. Being early at MCI is ****ing torture. I'd almost rather risk missing my flight and show up as late as possible than show up early and have to sit in the gate where there's one 2 stall bathroom and your choices of food are almost expired cold cuts or snack foods.

Yeah. It may have been a fine airport before the stupid terrorists screwed everything up, but it sure seems like there should have been a better way to design it post-9/11.

DEN had the bad luck of opening just a few years before 9/11 so it was probably the newest large airport in the country that wasn't designed for security. I wasn't flying as much in those years so I don't recall what it was like when it first opened. I think the big security area today was mostly open lounge. But they had to implement a notable change in passenger flow to put the security infrastructure into the terminal, which then turned the main visual focus into a bunch of lines of people. I remember being a bit disappointed in the change, but it's not like there was a choice.

I guess my point is that the 9/11 changes probably affected different airports differently. None of them were going to be good. DEN's was okay in the big scheme of things just because they coincidentally had a big open area that could be repurposed. KC's airport seemed like it was a really bad change.

[wazu]

I was hoping for some lizard illuminati stuff so we could beat Denver. Also something that would be more garish than Blucifer.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by wazu

I was hoping for some lizard illuminati stuff so we could beat Denver. Also something that would be more garish than Blucifer.

You don't want to one-up our lizard people. Don't make the lizard people angry.

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by wazu

I was hoping for some lizard illuminati stuff so we could beat Denver. Also something that would be more garish than Blucifer.

This is the way.

[Kman34]

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[BWillie]

This looks pretty cool

[ChiefsCountry]

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry

Now, THIS is art.

Deck the whole ****ing airport out in Mahomes art. Let everyone know who's town this is.

[Chieftain]

Abstract art sucks. Never been a fan of it.
As for the design of the new terminal, it's a simple rehashed design of previous terminal models found domestically and throughout the world. Certainly an improvement to the current terminal.

[Chieftain]

Whenever I see the works of Jackson Pollock or Mark Rothko, it makes me want to vomit. Great art should have meaning, should be understood and most importantly should be extremely hard to create by an average person. Picaso's earlier work for example was great and then he tried to reinvent himself with that cubism shit.