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Originally Posted by sentinel
Eh, to a degree, but to be honest, Terminal 1 looks dated, and it's only 31 years old. Jahn's style vacillates between timeless and meh. The Mansueto Library at U of C is wonderful and I think it will continue to look great for many years to come, but Terminal 1 hasn't aged well.
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I actually heard Jahn talking about Mansueto. He said that he wasn't 100% happy with the amount of steel and that if he had it to do over he'd use a much lighter skeleton.
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Originally Posted by nomarandlee
I agree that with those who think that T1 still holds up remarkably well 30 years after its introduction. The ped tunnel especially has somehow held up very well and seems to be timeless even if the lighting technology is dated.
The only downgrade I would say it has had was the check-in counters where it used to feel much larger and open before the retrofitted the ceiling (for energy savings?) and put up the security area right behind the check-in. Both which were necessary and hard to get around but even I remember it being much nicer before.
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The neon in the tunnel worked as designed for a very short period of time. In the early days it was glorious the neon was timed to specially composed that the public hated and immediately began to call "death music." I get it, you did feel like you were walking to your death. The music went, then the neon started to fail and was sort of put together but is very tamed down. Then the people movers got the "YOU ARE REACHING THE END OF..." announcements, then we got Rhapsody in Blue in an especially "plunk plunk plunk" version.
The main lobby was indeed ruined by new security realities. Showing my age, I remember when it was first opened. It had a great feel of space, and was designed for flyers to essentially walk through through checkin - I rememer each station had an individual conveyer for the luggage. You got your boarding pass, the luggage disappeared and you just kept moving right through. Those days, are long gone. I never quite got the "wall" which came later, I assumed it was to visually block the security area from the actual check in desks.
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