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UPDATE: March 3, 2021: After pressing pause twice within the last year, San Francisco International Airport has indefinitely delayed plans for the $1 billion expansion and renovation of Terminal 3. The most recent change to the T3 West project was announced at a recent board of supervisors’ budget and finance committee meeting. The project was first delayed for six months in April and again in October.
The airport’s 10-year expansion began in 2019, and it s uncertain how long this will delay the overall plans for the project. However, it will depend on some kind of return to normalcy in air travel, as the airport’s passenger numbers dropped by 71.4% and revenue dropped by 22% last year, forcing it to cut $136 million in expenses by deferring construction projects among other things, according to a report by the San Francisco Examiner.
SFO s $1 billion terminal expansion now on hold indefinitely, other big airport changes plow ahead
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A rendering of the renovated Terminal 3 West area at SFOSFO
San Francisco International Airport has twice in the last year delayed plans for a $1 billion expansion and renovation of Terminal 3. Now that project, T3 West, is on hold indefinitely. While previous delays were announced, this most recent and likely more significant change was revealed during the February 10 meeting of the Board of Supervisors’ Budget and Finance Committee. The committee will now allow existing retail and commercial tenants, who would have been displaced by construction, to renew their leases through December of 2023.
Sam Whiting January 15, 2021Updated: January 20, 2021, 12:19 pm
Overview of the new sculpture installation by Gay Outlaw at San Francisco International Airport Photo: Sam Whiting/the Chronicle
John Ong of Sacramento was awaiting a friend’s arrival at San Francisco International Airport when he leaned over a railing and was confronted by a sculpture garden.
“I’m not really much into art and all that. I love the colors, though,” he said, when asked to describe what he saw. “They could look good at my house for sure.”
Ong’s difficulty in summarizing what he was looking at is the point of this new permanent public art installation by Gay Outlaw, a San Francisco artist known for her dry Southern humor.
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Vivian Lee, FAIA, the New York studio Executive Director, joined the firm in February, a week before the city closed down. Maureen Boyer, AIA, was appointed to the same position in San Francisco in July, while Christiana Kyrillou, AIA, the Woods Bagot veteran, has risen through the ranks and opened the LA studio at the beginning of the year. In an exclusive interview with ArchDaily, the three architects discuss their design inspirations and challenges, as well as what it s like to practice today.
Why did you each choose to study architecture?
Christiana: I grew up in a small village in Cyprus with traditional homes, some of which were made of mud bricks. As a kid I would go around the neighborhood looking at buildings with my scale and my pencil, and try to capture them on a piece of paper. Growing up, I saw the traditional homes disappear as my village became a tourist resort and they became service apartments or hotels, resta