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Kevin Murphy Comments on Plans to Upgrade Atlanta Airport with Canopies

Posted by on Friday, October 5, 2018 in HART, News, Vanderbilt University, VRC.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution (October 3, 2018)—In the City Too Busy to Hate, perhaps it’s fitting that the airport is too busy to worry about architectural attractiveness.

At least that’s the rep Hartsfield-Jackson International’s domestic terminal has earned over the decades.

But officials at the world’s busiest airport hope that two massive, multi-million dollar canopies will brighten the domestic terminal’s visage — with the help of more than 3,600 multi-colored lights.

atlantaairportcanopyThe airport canopies will “become the next architectural icon for the City of Atlanta,” the airport said in an announcement.

Construction of the first canopy at the Terminal North curbside is disrupting traffic from late evening into the early morning hours, but city and airport officials say it will all be worth it.

According to Vanderbilt University professor and history of art department chair Kevin D. Murphy, “having a vary unattractive airport, as Atlanta now does, can only create negative feelings about the city, which could have an economic impact as people choose to travel elsewhere.”  Read more in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “Canopies to light up Atlanta airport’s otherwise dull domestic terminal,” article by Kelly Yamanouchi.

*Photograph courtesy of New South-McCarthy-Synergy, A Joint Venture, Atlanta, GA

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