Adapting an old terminal came with multiple noise challenges: muffling the sound of road traffic to the east, idling or taxiing aircraft to the west, and planes flying above.

Chicago has chosen Studio ORD JV Partners' design for the $8.5-billion planned O'Hare International Airport expansion which includes a new 2.2-million-sq-ft global terminal and concourse.

The cost of the design for a new Kansas City International Airport has nearly doubled since a developer was picked in September 2017 in a very open, if chaotic, process. Now, Chicago is going with a completely closed process to pick the designer of a new terminal at O'Hare International in a process that's just as bad.

With construction of the $1 billion North Terminal entering its final stages, officials with the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport are considering the future of the old airport building, which will become vacant when the new terminal opens on May 15.

A joint venture between Gensler and HDR has been selected to design a new terminal at the Pittsburgh International Airport.