Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy
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Re: Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy
#2Gorgeous. Hopefully more airports will adopt similar wood themed, warm environments. Madrid International Airport is similar in tone: https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/madrid-airport-interior.ht... which I very much like as well.
Re: Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy
#3I might end up visiting Portland just to see the airport.
Re: Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy
#4This reminds me of the fairly new Terminal 2 in Bengaluru, covered in (mostly?) bamboo and greenery: https://www.architecturaldigest.in/story/bengalurus-kempegow...
Re: Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy
#5This reminds me of the fairly new Terminal 2 in Bengaluru, covered in (mostly?) bamboo and greenery: https://www.architecturaldigest.in/story/bengalurus-kempegow...
Yes, the new terminal in Bengaluru is BEAUTIFUL! I was amazed walking through it with how lush it was. Really love that look and very fitting for the climate (more or less)
Re: Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy
#6Portland has a history of impressive wooden buildings:
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/world-largest-log-cabin-por...
Re: Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy
#7I wish we had more pretty architecture like this in the U.S. Our architecture is so utilitarian/corporate and built at the lowest price and just enough to meet building codes. I get why it is the way it is, but I can still wish.
Re: Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy
#8We drove over to PDX a few weeks back not because we had any flights, just to check it out. It's gorgeous - I can't believe I'm saying that about an airport in the US - it's just an amazing space. In addition to the architecture there are huge video walls above the TSA entrance that have calming forest/coastal scenes.
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#9I might end up visiting Portland just to see the airport.
It really is a pleasant place to be.
There is a free theater with ~16 seats that shows 5-minute film shorts. And famously, any restaurant that has a brick and mortar in town can't charge prices higher in the airport.
I've often thought it wouldn't be a terrible place to take a date, at least in the pre 9/11 security days when you could access the whole terminal.
Re: Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy
#10Certainly less miserable to look at inside than it was 20 years ago. Much better than the brutalist hell that is most of Portland.