Orlando's new Terminal: glass, multi media, shopping

The Orlando Airport's new South Terminal is scheduled to open in the summer of 2020. Now, first plans show how the building should look and work.

In the first quarter of 2017 to get going: the Orlando International Airport begins construction of its southern terminal. Everything goes according to plan, Terminal C will open its doors with 16 new gates in the summer of 2020. A peculiarity: In contrast to the North Terminal, arriving passengers will enter the building on the top floor with a glass ceiling. «She will donate the passengers, who were crammed in this aircraft, daylight», cited the newspaper of Orlando Sentinel Curtis Fentress, the head of the competent architects to Fentress architects.

Also big multimedia screens to show pictures from Florida in the whole terminal and offer travellers the opportunity, upload your own holiday pictures. Similar screens found himself - also designed - in the Los Angeles International Airport, with the help of Fentress writes the journal. Longer keep passengers in the main terminal and increased the revenues of retailers by 33 percent.

Current development is just the beginning

Shopping receipts in the sections «Town Square» and «Palm Court» should flow into Orlando's South Terminal, by the main road called "the Boulevard» are connected. So the Fentress plans envision, which so far have completed 30 percent. The cost of construction are target at 1.8 billion dollars. However will not remain in all of this: once opened, should grow the South Terminal and a total construction period of 25 years have over 120 Gates according to the newspaper.

See first impressions of the new terminal of Orlando in the above Gallery.

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