Airport Art and Architecture
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Architecture is one thing, the art within those glass walls and steel beams are another. Some of the coolest art and architecture you get to see in international airports is not so obvious. Some artwork responds to the architecture in some way, creating a dialogue for passengers, while others make the surrounding surreal. Here’s a quick run-through of some airport art which caught our eye.
Miami International Airport
Christopher Janney has created a 72-foot long transparent installation with 150 different colors which washes passengers in a rainbow as they walk through a corridor at Miami International called ‘Harmonic Convergence.’ It’s a sound piece, too, as travelers walk through the rainbow, they hear sounds from Janney’s trip to the Florida Everglades, scuba diving and more.
Tampa International Airport
Since 1998, the Tampa International Airport has created a public art program tied around a historical and cultural theme related to Florida, includes permanent exhibitions, like ‘Art of the 60s and 70s’ by local artists, and temporary shows like ‘Kites in Flight’ by Lisa and Joe Vogt.
Jacksonville Airport
If you’re jet-lagged in Jacksonville’s airport, you’re not hallucinating when you look up and see 150 paper airplanes. Migration of the Paper Airplanes by local artist David Engdahl has large steel paper airplanes floating through the airport’s botanical garden-esque ceiling in red, blue and yellow.
Keflavik Airport
Iceland’s only airport, Keflavik, has a rainbow sculpture by local artist RúrÃ, who has created a 24-meter-high stainless steel and glass rainbow arc right in front of the Leif Eirikson International Air Terminal Building. The arc is intentionally incomplete, as the artist says: “I like to think of the rainbow as an unfinished construction, and imagine that maybe one day after one hundred years or so, someone might decide to continue the work… until at last it would become a complete rainbow.”
