TRAVEL
Originally published on Wednesday, 19 March 2008
Heathrow T5 - 8 days to go ART
BA’s Terminal 5 promises a heightened travel experience with cutting edge technology and extreme design concepts. Urban Junkies counts down our favourite new features.
Airport art isn’t always the most inspiring of mediums, generally restricted to half-arsed artistic interpretations of planes or a strange flight pattern sculpture next to the ladies loos.
All of that’s about to change with T5, which has collaborated with curators Art Wise to commission some one-off art with an eye on the unusual, including moving wallpaper, an animated stone carving, and a 22 metre long electroluminescent world clock displaying times from all over the world.
Among UJ’s favourites are ‘Oak Seasons’, a set of glass screens laser etched with traditional woodland illustrations containing secret details, designed by Christopher Pearson. UK design team Troika have used flip-dot technology, previously only seen on 2D notice boards in train stations, to create a kinetic ‘Cloud’ sculpture suspended over the main escalators which will form black and silver patterns as it flips.
Watch the cloud at: www.youtube.com