Sculpture at airports [served by BA]
Apr 15, 2024, 2:29 pm
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Sculpture at airports [served by BA]
I am rather fond of public sculptures and don’t think the UK has anywhere near enough. The small town where I live has three I think. T5 has the outdoor destination one and the BA lounge flipping cover scales one but apart from a dinosaur that appeared some time ago for a brief period (human not geological) there’s nothing else.
I find the T2 outside one too large to appreciate.
Here’s a nice one at HEL:
Let’s have more! What’s your favourite airport sculpture?
I find the T2 outside one too large to appreciate.
Here’s a nice one at HEL:
Let’s have more! What’s your favourite airport sculpture?
Apr 15, 2024, 2:32 pm
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That's the Moomins rather than specifically sculpture, and this isn't really BA, but before the thread disappears, I am very fond of the Alcock and Brown memorial at Manchester by Elizabeth Frink, a representation of Icarus that was a feature of childhood holidays. It's now hidden away in a corridor on the way to the station but is worth a detour.
Apr 15, 2024, 2:45 pm
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And the post 9/11 secondary security screening located where that photo was taken prior to the walkway onto that pier. Thankfully a shortish lived addition. The pool was always a handy place to exchange foreign currency coins at more advantageous rates of exchange 😉
Apr 15, 2024, 3:14 pm
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I will go for Don Yeoman's Celebration of Flight at YVR. It's a totem pole which nods to Canada's First Nations but also in different ways to aviation and the people who now live in BC.
Apr 15, 2024, 3:25 pm
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Apr 15, 2024, 4:19 pm
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Paintings would be good too. Edvard Munch at MAN perhaps?
https://www.biography.com/artists/edvard-munch
https://www.biography.com/artists/edvard-munch
Apr 15, 2024, 4:26 pm
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To avoid shunting this thread off to another home how about we make it about sculptures (and the like) at airports served by BA. It’s the best I can do. I will change the thread title and we can see how it goes.
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Apr 15, 2024, 4:41 pm
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I am rather fond of public sculptures and don’t think the UK has anywhere near enough. The small town where I live has three I think. T5 has the outdoor destination one and the BA lounge flipping cover scales one but apart from a dinosaur that appeared some time ago for a brief period (human not geological) there’s nothing else.
I find the T2 outside one too large to appreciate.
Here’s a nice one at HEL:
Let’s have more! What’s your favourite airport sculpture?
I find the T2 outside one too large to appreciate.
Here’s a nice one at HEL:
Let’s have more! What’s your favourite airport sculpture?
(HEL is full of moomin stuff, massive Finnish cultural export)