At any rate, the sheikh can console himself with the knowledge that the metro will be the world's biggest computer-operated train system, and its Union Station will have the world's biggest underground railway concourse.
The big names on the concourse are Zenith, Samsung and Casio.
Cohn grew up in an apartment on Walton Avenue, just down the street from the courthouse, near the crest of the Grand Concourse, watching big makhers coming and going through the living room, transacting heavy business with his father.
Now most architects don't get to do much more than give the main concourse a big, swooping space with natural light — like the one in the new American Airlines terminal at Kennedy airport — which acts as little more than a distraction from the banality of the rest of the terminal.
One customer-service representative said there was an impromptu meeting an hour and half into the rain delay to make sure all the representatives were clear on the rules: as long as the big screens in the concourses read "Rain delay," the game was still on.
"I momentarily stepped away, maybe eight feet," from his two bags – a large, flat artist's portfolio and a backpack full of his Sharpie markers – in the terminal's main concourse near the big clock to get a better vantage point, and began sketching.
Having pitched a few hissy fits ourselves while trapped in O'Hare, we know how hard it is to make a dent in the noisy commotion at one of the world's busiest air terminals, but we fully believe he was able to do so -- howling, bawling and baying at the ceiling of the H concourse as his big toe throbbed.
When weather permits, the walls can slide open to connect the concourses to a big paved plaza at each end of the stadium, creating the illusion that the field extends toward infinity.
Plans for the 178-year-old station - London's oldest surviving rail terminus - include the concourse that will be bigger than the pitch at Wembley.
Suspected to have been financed by a lavish donation from Big Ice, Grand Central Terminal's vast vaulted main concourse will be transformed into an indoor skating arena complete with old-fashioned pipe organ and Strauss waltzes from December to March.
