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system). Famed Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, known for
dynamic transportation projects, was selected to design amaster
plan for a new $650 million landmark addition that would cre-
ate a respectful dialogue between the new facility and existing
terminals. At the same time, Gensler was brought on to design
the hotel, one part of the complex.
With an implacable recession gripping the state and a com-
pressed project budget, Calatrava’s team bowed out in 2011. With
pressing schedule commitments, Gensler, as design architect for
the project, took the reins on the master plan, and redesigned
the train shed and public plaza to meet budgetary constraints.
Anderson Mason Dale continued as architect of record, and
S.A. Miro structural engineers and a newly conceived tri-venture
between contractors Mortenson, Hunt and Saunders (MHS) im-
mediately assumed the project’s leading roles.
Now, as the glassy, 14-level building rises adjacent to the south
end of the terminal, conversations turn to the tremendous feat
of collaboration and engineering required to gracefully execute
the design team’s vision while accommodating the airport’s
program for a minimum 500-room hotel and conference cen-
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