Janney has installations at airports in Boston, Miami, Fla., and San Antonio. Interspersed will be snippets of music, sounds of jet aviation, and actors reciting historical facts.

Voices will include humorist Will Rogers, radio commentator Paul Harvey, and longtime CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite, who was the first radio play-by-play announcer for University of Oklahoma football. Stepping through the vestibule, he said, visitors will be bathed in those shadows as they encounter a soundscape of voices and music telling an Oklahoma story. In 'Sonic Gates: OKC,' the vestibule's glass panels clearly announce it as the center's entrance, its functional role.Īny Oklahoman, though, will see in the chosen colors broad hints of an Oklahoma sunset.Īs the sliding glass doors open and close, and as daytime turns to night, the colors are intended to cross to new shades creating, as Janney calls them, 'colored shadows.' Janney has devoted his career to a synthesis of architecture and jazz, his chosen disciplines. Janney's transformation of the vestibule into an 'urban musical instrument' is designed to give rushing travelers a moment for reflection and even a grounding in Oklahoma's place on the prairie. With an average of 600 rentals daily, the center will be humming from the get-go. The bus ride to and from the terminal will be less than a mile. The 19,000-square-foot, $36.2 million center - surrounded by a sea of 820 rental car spaces - replaces crowded facilities in the airport's parking garage.Īdvantage, Alamo, Avis, Budget, Dollar, Enterprise, Hertz, National and Thrifty have counters in the new building.

The airport's new rental car center opens Wednesday morning.

Renting a car at Will Rogers World Airport ought to be a little less fraught starting Wednesday.Īrtist Christopher Janney's work is among the reasons why.

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