Monday June 12th 2006, 7:27 am
When JetBlue Airways hired David Rockwell to design the interior experience of its new terminal at JFK, Rockport partnered with Broadway choreographer Jerry Mitchell to assist in imagining airport foot and vehicle traffic as a choreography challenge, and designing an efficient experience accordingly.
A choreographer may not be a typical participant in an architectural design process, but Rockwell likes unusual collaborations; he enlisted Todd Oldham, the fashion designer, to help develop the color scheme for the Kodak Theater in Hollywood and had the underground cartoonist Gary Panter working with him on a Disney cruise ship project.
The terminal is expected to open in 2008.
