Pelli joins airport design team

NEW ORLEANS -- Cesar Pelli, an international architecture star, has joined the team redesigning the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. The $826 million project will result in a new 30-gate terminal, complete with hotel, parking garage, highway access and other amenities. The ambitious airport rebuild is supposed to be finished by New Orleans’ 300th anniversary on May 5, 2018. Pelli joins New Orleans' William Raymond Manning of Manning Architects and Lionelle Hewitt of Hewitt Washington Architects in the Armstrong airport redesign. (Sources: Times Picayune, 08/26/13, New Orleans International Airport, 08/22/13)