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Excerpt: Making the most efficient designs is paramount—from getting passengers comfortably through airports to reducing energy bills to being able to upgrade facilities to keep up with technology and other needs with minimal disruption, Fentress says.
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Distinctive Visitor Center and Hotel Finally Take Flight
Digging Deeper | Cultural
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A new visitor center and hotel just outside the North Gate of the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs are pretty hard to miss. The multi-planed roof design of the former conjures images of fighter jets staggered underneath each other, and the two structures are connected via a pedestrian bridge.
In the wake of 9/11, stringent security measures impacted the original visitor center on the [Air Force Academy] campus. Annual attendance waned from more than 1 million to about 250,000. The post-9/11 dynamic led to the idea of moving the visitor center outside of the academy’s North Gate.
Situated on a bluff just west of I-25, the 34,000-sq-ft center is nearing completion after the project broke ground in late 2022. Featuring a mezzanine on the first level and core and shell on the second level, the steel structure supports a metal wall panel, curtain wall and three metal panel roof systems. Schnepf says the new facility could return attendance to the pre-9/11 levels when it opens in late 2025. The exterior and structure are due for completion this spring, then the AFA will build out the interior.”
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