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Artwork to Enhance The New SLC  

Gordon Huether and his team have been selected to work with the Salt Lake City Department of Airports (SLCDA) to create large-scale, permanent art installations for The New SLC.

Huether’s largest art installation titled “The Canyon,” is integrated on both walls of the new airport terminal. 

The Canyon evokes the Salt Lake City landscape and spans 362 feet, roughly the length of a football field, using 2.5 acres of composite fabric, and the equivalent of seven miles of aluminum tubing. The entire work consists of 412 individual tensile membrane fins.

 

Additional installations integrated into The New SLC design, include the "Column Plates" and an 80-foot-tall escalator well sculpture titled “The Falls.” The sculptural Column Plates, located in a gathering area for both arriving and departing passengers, are made of composite material and create a visual distinction for the various activities taking place in the open space. The sculptural forms of the columns provide interest and induce a sense of wonder, while maintaining their functionality and visibility of the view corridor.

As a focal point of a high-traffic area, The Falls sculpture makes use of the natural light provided by the curtain wall near the three-story escalator well, creating intriguing color effects in its vicinity. Colorful, light-sensitive dichroic glass fins are partnered with light-refracting glass rods to create ever-changing colors and patterns on adjacent surfaces.

Gordon Huether Studio was the recipient of a 2018 SARA National Design Award for designing The Canyon, The Falls, The Plates and Benches all of which will be located in The New SLC.

For renderings of The New SLC art installations, go to https://gordonhuether.com/salt-lake-city-international-airport.

Click here for a behind-the-scenes look Gordon Huether's work.

Click here for a look at the major art installations coming to The New SLC.

Click here for information on the Whimsy Wall Art Project.

Click here for information on The New SLC Art Wall.

Click here for information on the airport’s art collection.