“Keep walking”
“Keep walking” the voice commands, and is it mirror distortion, or maybe because they’ve all been sitting far too long in airplanes, these people have a funny rubbery-legged gait that reminds me of the Ministry of Silly Walks. In United Airlines Terminal 1, the “Terminal for Tomorrow” (1987), Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD), which was designed by postmodern architect Helmut Jahn. The 850-foot-long passageway between Concourse B and C has wavy colored-glass walls, moving sidewalks, a mirrored ceiling, and a neon sculpture by Michael Hayden. Computers control the rhythm of the neon display and endlessly replay a short soulless snippet of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.”
“Keep walking”
“Keep walking” the voice commands, and is it mirror distortion, or maybe because they’ve all been sitting far too long in airplanes, these people have a funny rubbery-legged gait that reminds me of the Ministry of Silly Walks. In United Airlines Terminal 1, the “Terminal for Tomorrow” (1987), Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD), which was designed by postmodern architect Helmut Jahn. The 850-foot-long passageway between Concourse B and C has wavy colored-glass walls, moving sidewalks, a mirrored ceiling, and a neon sculpture by Michael Hayden. Computers control the rhythm of the neon display and endlessly replay a short soulless snippet of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.”