Why O’Hare Will Never Be Finished

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O’Hare airport one of the largest indoor structures on the continent, and it’s still growing. By the end of its current expansion, the place will hold nearly **9** million square feet of connected interior space. That’s the scale of a small city… inside a building.

In this video, I look at how a megastructure like this expands without shutting down, why its layout keeps drifting into strange new shapes over the decades, and how its designers think about the whole thing a...