Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport | HKS Architects Atlanta, Georgia, USA Design Architect: HKS is the managing partner of a three-way joint venture with Corgan and Fitzgerald Collaborative Group. The Challenge To update and modernize a busy hub airport to increase comfort and amenities for more than 100 million passengers each year, without interrupting airport and airline operations. The Design Solution ATL’s Airside Modernization program refreshes and reconfigures 120 existing passenger holdrooms on four concourses, redesigns the central retail nodes, and renovates the underground pedestrian connections and automated train stations. New holdroom ceilings slope upward to embrace a curtainwall system that doubles the previous amount of perimeter glazing, creating light and

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