Sky Stations

The sky stations of Bartle Hall in the early morning.  I showed you this building while I was stuck in traffic heading under this convention center a few weeks ago here.

Bartle Hall

Stuck in traffic heading under Bartle Hall, the convention center.  This building has 388,800 square feet of column free space due to the 300 ft pylons supporting the roof.  This is the largest column free convention center in the world.  As you can see it is built over 6 lanes of traffic on I-70.  The building was designed and constructed to achieve green building standards and received a LEED silver rating.  This building was built in 1984.

Looking North

From the Kauffman Center looking north toward Bartle Hall's sky stations.  Bartle Hall is the convention center in KC.  It has 388,800 square feet of contiguous, column-free space, which is the size of eight football fields.  These pylons of concrete and steel support the cables that suspend Bartle Hall above I-70 and allow for the column-free space inside the convention center.  These sky stations are brilliant at night as I showed you here. 

Bartle Hall Sky Station

In 0ut of the Cold

Under Bartle Hall watching downtown in out of the cold, cold weather.  I've given you a couple photo's of the sky stations on top of Bartle Hall, here is a photo from under Barle Hall.

Sky Stations